Social Conceptions of Time Structure and Process in Work and Everyday Life

by Crow, Graham; Heath, Sue

• ISBN13: 9780333984994
• ISBN10: 0333984994
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-11
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book is concerned with the significance of time in work and everyday life. The contributors are among the foremost authorities in the field, and their up-to-date contributions consider the changing social meanings that time has in work, leisure and everyday routines. Together they provide a combination of theoretical and empirically-based approaches that reveal the social significance of time in all aspects of everyday lives.

Author Biography

Graham Crow is Senior Lecturer in Sociology, and Sue Heath is Lecturer in Sociology, both at the University of Southampton.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	ix
List of Tables	x
Acknowledgements	xii
Notes on Contributors	xiv
Introduction	1	(8)
Graham Crow
Sue Heath
I The Political Economy of Time	9	(58)
Time, Complexity and the Global	11	(13)
John Urry
Introduction	11	(1)
Times	12	(2)
The global paradigm	14	(2)
Global hybrids	16	(5)
Conclusion	21	(2)
Acknowledgements	23	(1)
Service Regimes and the Political Economy of Time	24	(14)
Jonathan Gershuny
Introduction	24	(1)
Historical change in time use	25	(5)
The political economy at time	30	(2)
High and low value services, production and consumption	32	(1)
Alternative service economies	33	(3)
Conclusion	36	(2)
Politicizing Time: Temporal Issues for Second-Wave Feminists	38	(15)
Mary Holmes
Introduction: if only we had time	38	(3)
Women have no time	41	(2)
Making time to act	43	(3)
Challenging time	46	(4)
Time enough	50	(2)
Notes	52	(1)
Time and Speed in the Social Universe of Capital	53	(14)
Michael Neary
Glen Rikowski
Introduction	53	(3)
The speed of life	56	(3)
The social universe of capital: M--C--M' meets E = mc2	59	(5)
A theory of social time	64	(3)
II Work Time	67	(96)
How Many Hours? Work-Time Regimes and Preferences in European Countries	69	(19)
Colette Fagan
Introduction	69	(1)
Working-time trends and pressures in contemporary societies	69	(3)
Who works the longest hours?	72	(5)
How many hours would men and women prefer to work?	77	(9)
Conclusion	86	(1)
Notes	87	(1)
Gendered and Classed Working Time in Britain: Dual-Employee Couples in Higher/Lower-Level Occupations	88	(21)
Tracey Warren
Introduction	88	(1)
Data	89	(2)
Gendered and classed working time	91	(1)
Dual breadwinners	92	(1)
Male breadwinners	93	(4)
Dual breadwinners	97	(1)
Female breadwinners	98	(1)
Dual carers	98	(9)
Conclusion	107	(2)
Employment Patterns for the Future: Balancing Work and Family Life in Two Local Authorities	109	(17)
Mark Smith
Marilyn Carroll
Introduction	109	(2)
The case study organizations and the survey	111	(1)
Polarization in coping with care responsibilities	112	(6)
Diverging preferences	118	(6)
Conclusion	124	(1)
Acknowledgements	125	(1)
Making Time for Management: the Careers and Lives of Manager-Academics in UK Universities	126	(18)
Rosemary Deem
Sam Hillyard
Introduction	126	(1)
Time and the workof manager-academics	127	(1)
Time and manager-academic careers	128	(4)
Finding time for management	132	(5)
Work time and home time	137	(4)
Conclusion	141	(1)
Acknowledgements	142	(1)
Notes	142	(2)
`Big Brother is Watching You!' Call Centre Surveillance and the Time-Disciplined Subject	144	(19)
David Knights
Pamela Odih
Introduction	144	(2)
Time discipline at work	146	(1)
The ethnography at the BNFS call centre	147	(1)
Analytic themes, data and discussion	148	(1)
Process time and `emotional labour'	149	(3)
Task and process tensions	152	(2)
Temporal clashes, resistance and attrition	154	(2)
Discussion	156	(3)
Summary and conclusion	159	(4)
III Time in Everyday Life	163	(84)
Are Long or Unsocial Hours of Work Bad for Leisure?	165	(14)
Ken Roberts
Working time -- once again an issues?	165	(1)
Redistributing work	166	(1)
The quality of life	166	(1)
Methods	167	(2)
Age, class and gender	169	(1)
Income	170	(2)
Length of working time	172	(2)
Odd hours	174	(1)
Time and money	174	(1)
Discussion	175	(3)
Acknowledgements	178	(1)
Routine Matters: Narratives of Everyday Life in Families	179	(16)
Elizabeth Silva
Introduction	179	(1)
Mainstreem sociology and contemporary everyday routines	180	(2)
Narratives of routines: the study	182	(3)
Gender and routines	185	(8)
Conclusion	193	(1)
Note	194	(1)
Roles, Rhythms and Routines: Towards a New Script of Daily Life in the Netherlands?	195	(20)
Andries van den Broek
Koen Breedveld
Wim Knulst
Introduction	195	(1)
Context	195	(2)
Changing roles	197	(5)
Eroding rhythms	202	(1)
The dispersion of tasks	203	(3)
Weekly and daily rhythms	206	(3)
Fewer routines	209	(3)
Conclusion and discussion	212	(3)
Time for Life: Time for Being and Becoming	215	(15)
Davina Chaplin
Introduction	215	(1)
Horizons	216	(2)
Tempo	218	(3)
Stress and de-stressing	221	(1)
Resisting clock time	222	(1)
Spontaniety and synchronicity	223	(2)
Routines and repetitions	225	(2)
Time `out' or ontological time	227	(3)
Collecting Time: the Social Organization of Collecting	230	(17)
Jackie Goode
Introduction: the collecting phenomenon	230	(1)
Why now?	231	(3)
Methodology	234	(3)
Revisiting the past	237	(3)
Organizing the present	240	(2)
Maintaining a stake in the future	242	(3)
Conclusions	245	(2)
Bibliography	247	(17)
Index	264