Social Conceptions of Time

KOEN BREEDVELD Research Fellow, Social and Cultural Planning Office, The NetherlandsMARILYN CARROLL Research Associate, European Work and Employment Research Centre, Manchester School of ManagementDAVINA CHAPLIN previously Lecturer, University of Central LancashireROSEMARY DEEM Professor of Education, University of BristolCOLETTE FAGAN Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of ManchesterJONATHAN GERSHUNY Director, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of EssexJACKIE GOODE Researcher, Management Centre, King's College LondonSAM HILLYARD Lecturer in Sociology, University of NottinghamMARY HOLMES Lecturer in Sociology, University of AberdeenDAVID KNIGHTS Professor of Organizational Analysis, Head of the School of Management, Keele UniversityWIM KNULST Professor, Leisure Studies Department, Tilburg University, The NetherlandsMICHAEL NEARY Lecturer in Sociology, University of WarwickPAMELA ODIH Lecturer in Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of LondonGLENN RIKOWSKI Lecturer, University College, NorthamptonKEN ROBERTS Professor of Sociology, University of LiverpoolELIZABETH BORTOLAIA SILVA Senior Research Fellow in Sociology, and Research Director, National Everyday Cultures Programme, Open UniversityMARK SMITH Lecturer in Employment Studies, Manchester School of ManagementJOHN URRY Professor of Sociology, Lancaster UniversityANDRIES VAN DEN BROEK Research Unit, Social and Cultural Planning Office, The NetherlandsTRACEY WARREN Lecturer in Sociology, University of Nottingham

• List of Tables List of Figures Introduction: G.Crow & S.Heath PART I: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF TIME Time, Complexity and the Global; J.Urry Service Regimes and the Political Economy of Time; J.Gershuny Politicizing Time: Temporal Issues for Second Wave Feminists; M.Holmes Time and Speed in the Social Universe of Capital; M.Neary & G.Rikowski PART II: WORK TIME How Many Hours? Work Time Regimes and Preferences in European Countries; C.Fagan Gendered and Classed Working Time in Britain: Dual-employee Couples in Higher/Lower Level Occupations; T.Warren Employment Patterns for the Future: Balancing Work and Family Life in Two Local Authorities; M.Smith & M.Carroll Making Time for Management: The Careers and Lives of Manager-Academics in UK Universities; R.Deem & S.Hillyard 'Big Brother is Watching You!'; Call Centre Surveillance and the Time Disciplines Subject; D.Knights & P.Odih PART III: TIME IN EVERYDAY LIFE Are Long or Unsocial Hours of Work Bad for Leisure?; K.Roberts Routine Matters: Narratives of Everyday Life in Families; E.B.Silva Roles, Rhythms and Routines: Towards a New Script of Daily Life in the Netherlands; A.van den Broek, K.Breedveld & W.Knulst Time for Life: Time for Being and Becoming; D.Chaplin Collecting Time: The Social Organization of Collecting; J.Goode Bibliography Index