Changing Times: Work and Leisure in Postindustrial Society

by JonathanGershuny (Author), Jonathan Gershuny (Author), J. Gershuny (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2000

  $186.60

  This text is about what we do for a living, and for other people's livings. Focusing on time-use, it aims to measure how members of a society spend their time, and uses surveys of daily life in 20 countries from 1960 onwards to construct an account of time-use patterns and how they have changed.

• New

  Paperback
  2003

  $67.37

  There is little substantive evidence of how individuals and societies spend their time, and of how this has changed in the developed world. This text brings together data gathered in 40 national scale time-diary studies, from 20 countries, and covering the last third of the 20th century.