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Time for life : the surprising ways Americans use their time / John P. Robinson and Geoffrey Godbey ; with a foreword by Robert D. Putnam.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Edition: Second editionDescription: xxii, 402 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0271019700
  • 9780271019703
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 640.430973
LOC classification:
  • HN90.T5 R66 1999
Contents:
1. The use of time -- 2. The speedup of life : time-deepening -- 3. Interpreting the time famine -- 4. Measuring how people spend time -- 5. The overestimated workweek and trends in hours at work -- 6. Trends in housework and family care -- 7. Trends in personal care and travel -- 8. Trends in free time, 1965-1985 -- 9. Trends in television time and other media -- 10. Home computers and use of time -- 11. Social capital and the rest of free time -- 12. Background predictors of time use -- 13. Gender differences and trends : toward an androgynous society -- 14. Widening age gaps in time use -- 15. Status and racial differences in time use -- 16. Perceptions of time pressure -- 17. How people feel about their daily activities -- 18. The results from inputs of time -- 19. Comparisons with other countries -- 20. Issues for the future -- 21. Brother, can you spare some time? -- 22. A 1990s update : trends since 1985.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-392) and index.

1. The use of time -- 2. The speedup of life : time-deepening -- 3. Interpreting the time famine -- 4. Measuring how people spend time -- 5. The overestimated workweek and trends in hours at work -- 6. Trends in housework and family care -- 7. Trends in personal care and travel -- 8. Trends in free time, 1965-1985 -- 9. Trends in television time and other media -- 10. Home computers and use of time -- 11. Social capital and the rest of free time -- 12. Background predictors of time use -- 13. Gender differences and trends : toward an androgynous society -- 14. Widening age gaps in time use -- 15. Status and racial differences in time use -- 16. Perceptions of time pressure -- 17. How people feel about their daily activities -- 18. The results from inputs of time -- 19. Comparisons with other countries -- 20. Issues for the future -- 21. Brother, can you spare some time? -- 22. A 1990s update : trends since 1985.

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