Time Pioneers Flexible Working Time and New Lifestyles [Hardcover]

In this book the authors examine the relations between work and time and explore the possibilities of developing new and more flexible working patterns.Introduction.

1. Lifestyles and time relations in flux.

2. Flexible working time - new perspectives and traditional forms of opposition.

3. The revision of interpretative schemata - commitment and dissociation.

4. The changed relationship between money and time.

5. The time structures of the new lifestyle.

6. The dynamic of the new lifestyle.

7. Future prospects.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index.

A most stimulating book ... important reading for anyone trying to understand contemporary social life. British Journal of Sociology

A welcome and novel contribution to the literature on the relationship between time, money, work and lifestyle. It raises questions about the way we live our lives. Time and Society

This excellent, thought-provoking sociological study should be widely read. Dr Barbara Adam, University of Wales

Karl H. Hörning and Anette Gerhardt are the authors of Time Pioneers: Flexible Working Time and New Lifestyles, published by Wiley.Modern attitudes to work are closely interwoven with the ways in which people think about the temporal organization of their lives. In this important book, the authors examine the relations between work and time and explore the possibilities of developing new and more flexible working patterns.

Drawing on interviews with employees who have chosen to reduce their working hours from 40 to between 20 and 30 per week, the authors identify two categories of workers: first, the time conformists who see nothing unusual in their shorter working time and tend to filñ