Overview

A healthy work-life balance has become increasingly important to people trying to cope with the pressures of contemporary society. This trend highlights the fallacy of assessing well-being in terms of finance alone; how much time we have matters just as much as how much money. The authors of this book have developed a novel way to measure 'discretionary time': time which is free to spend as one pleases. Exploring data from the US, Australia, Germany, France, Sweden and Finland, they show that temporal autonomy varies substantially across different countries and under different living conditions. By calibrating how much control people have over their time, and how much they could have under alternative welfare, gender or household arrangements, this book offers a new perspective for comparative cross-national enquiries into the temporal aspects of human welfare.

ISBN-13

9780521882989

ISBN-10

0521882982

Weight

1.98 Pounds

Dimensions

6.20 x 1.30 x 9.00 In

List Price

$118.00

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Pages

482 pages

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published On

2008-02-21



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