What We Really Do All Day
Insights from the Centre for Time Use Research
Published on 27. June 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-241-28556-5 (ISBN)
Description
How has the way we spend our time changed over the last fifty years?
Are we really working more, sleeping less and addicted to our phones?
What does this mean for our health, wealth and happiness?
Everything we do happens in time and it feels like our lives are busier than ever before. Yet a detailed look at our daily activities reveals some surprising truths about the social and economic structure of the world we live in. This book delves into the unrivalled data collection and expertise of the Centre for Time Use Research to explore fifty-five years of change and what it means for us today.
Are we really working more, sleeping less and addicted to our phones?
What does this mean for our health, wealth and happiness?
Everything we do happens in time and it feels like our lives are busier than ever before. Yet a detailed look at our daily activities reveals some surprising truths about the social and economic structure of the world we live in. This book delves into the unrivalled data collection and expertise of the Centre for Time Use Research to explore fifty-five years of change and what it means for us today.
Reviews / Votes
Surprising truths about modern life . . . a fascinating analysis * The Guardian * This book is brilliant at busting myths about how we spend our time . . . its insight into what we do is illuminating . . . it's impossible not to see your life - and those of your parents and children - reflected in the data . . . And that makes reading it an excellent use of time. * Literary Review * Fascinating data, revealing much about our lives in the 21st century * iNews *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Penguin Books Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 181 mm
Width: 113 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
220 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-241-28556-5 (9780241285565)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Jonathan Gershuny | Oriel Sullivan
What We Really Do All Day
Insights from the Centre for Time Use Research
E-Book
06/2019
1st Edition
Pelican
€9.49
Available for download
Persons
Jonathan Gershuny is Professor of Economic Sociology and Co-Director at the Centre for Time Use Research, Department of Social Science, University College London. His previous books include After Industrial Society? and Changing Times.
Oriel Sullivan is Professor of Sociology of Gender and Co-Director at the Centre for Time Use Research, Department of Social Science, University College London. Her previous publications include Changing Gender Relations, Changing Families: Tracing the Pace of Change.
Oriel Sullivan is Professor of Sociology of Gender and Co-Director at the Centre for Time Use Research, Department of Social Science, University College London. Her previous publications include Changing Gender Relations, Changing Families: Tracing the Pace of Change.