This book is concerned with the significance of time in work and everyday life. The contributors are among the foremost authorities in the field, and their up-to-date contributions consider the changing social meanings that time has in work, leisure and everyday routines. Together they provide a combination of theoretical and empirically-based approaches that reveal the social significance of time in all aspects of everyday lives.

KOEN BREEDVELD Research Fellow, Social and Cultural Planning Office, The Netherlands MARILYN CARROLL Research Associate, European Work and Employment Research Centre, Manchester School of Management DAVINA CHAPLIN previously Lecturer, University of Central Lancashire ROSEMARY DEEM Professor of Education, University of Bristol COLETTE FAGAN Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Manchester JONATHAN GERSHUNY Director, Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex JACKIE GOODE Researcher, Management Centre, King's College London SAM HILLYARD Lecturer in Sociology, University of Nottingham MARY HOLMES Lecturer in Sociology, University of Aberdeen DAVID KNIGHTS Professor of Organizational Analysis, Head of the School of Management, Keele University WIM KNULST Professor, Leisure Studies Department, Tilburg University, The Netherlands MICHAEL NEARY Lecturer in Sociology, University of Warwick PAMELA ODIH Lecturer in Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London GLENN RIKOWSKI Lecturer, University College, Northampton KEN ROBERTS Professor of Sociology, University of Liverpool ELIZABETH BORTOLAIA SILVA Senior Research Fellow in Sociology, and Research Director, National Everyday Cultures Programme, Open University MARK SMITH Lecturer in Employment Studies, Manchester School of Management JOHN URRY Professor of Sociology, Lancaster University ANDRIES VAN DEN BROEK Research Unit, Social and Cultural Planning Office, The Netherlands TRACEY 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