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The Double Myth of Flexibilization: Trends in Scattered Work Hours, and Differences in Time-Sovereignty
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The authors argue that many people are already accustomed to working evenings, nights, and weekends, and that flexibilization will improve people's control over their working time and will improve their working habits.Abstract:
Advocates of the flexibilization of working time argue that many people are already accustomed to working evenings, nights and weekends, and that flexibilization will improve people's control over ...read more
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Social exclusion, mobility and access.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the mobile processes and infrastructures of travel and transport that engender and reinforce social exclusion in contemporary societies, and draw upon an extensive range of library, desk and field research to deal with crucial issues relating to the nature of a fair, just and mobile society.
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‘Squeezing Time’: Allocating Practices, Coordinating Networks and Scheduling Society
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on interviews with 20 suburban households who all suggested that people feel increasingly harried and suggested that harriedness was generated by a felt need to allocate and schedule practices within designated time frames (which created hot spots).
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The New Economy and the Work–Life Balance: Conceptual Explorations and a Case Study of New Media
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate some conceptualizations of the new economy and then explore how the new media sector has materialized and been experienced by people working in Brighton and Hove, a new media hub.
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Analysing the Temporal Organization of Daily Life: Social Constraints, Practices and their Allocation
TL;DR: In this paper, a theory of practice is employed to explore the relationship between respondents' non-work practices and five dimensions of time, and the most significant socio-demographic constraints (gender, age, life-course and education) are considered.
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Convenience food: space and timing
TL;DR: A distinction is drawn between modern and hypermodern forms of convenience, the first directed towards labour saving or time compression, the second to time-shifting as discussed by the authors, and it is argued that convenience food is as much a hypermodern response to de-routinisation as it is a modern search for the reduction of toil.
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Systematic error in behavioural measurement: Comparing results from interview and time budget studies
TL;DR: In this article, time diaries were used as a quality check for results obtained by direct interviews and questionnaires, and it was shown that activities clearly distinctive from other activities, such as gainful employment outside the home, produced the most accurate data in direct survey questions.
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Guidelines for time use data collection
TL;DR: The study concludes that alternative collection methods appear to make little difference in the resulting activity and time use estimates at customary levels of reporting.
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Changes in Working Hours in Germany The Resulting Impact on Everyday Life
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on a representative survey carried out from 1991-2 in West Germany and compare persons with regular working times with those who have shift and weekend work, tele-home-work and new working time models.
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Empirical Analysis of Work Schedule Flexibility: Implications for Road Pricing and Driver Information Systems
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors give an empirical analysis of work start time decisions, which is highly relevant for the future implementation of both road pricing and driver information systems, as flexibility is needed.
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Empirical analysis of work schedule flexibility: implications for road pricing and driver information systems. in: transport and information systems
Rhm Emmerink,P Van Beek +1 more
TL;DR: The analysis in the paper focuses on: the factors that determine the work schedule flexibility; the level of satisfaction derived from the actual work start time; and the amount of flexibility (allowed for by both the employer and the employees themselves) in the workstart time.