What is it about?
Hours of work increased in the 18th and early 19th century and then began a long-term decline to the point that in the 1960s and 1970s many analysts saw leisure rather than work becoming the shaper of lives. Instead, with neoliberalism coming to the fore, hours of work have increased. They have always been longer for women than men and there is little sign of that changing: in the discourse of 'work-life balance', 'life' often amounts to unpaid childcare and domestic work.
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Why is it important?
The book provides a long-term analysis of recent changes and rejects the view that the hours and conditions currently worked are inevitable and unchangeable.
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This page is a summary of: Time, work and leisure, April 2014, Manchester University Press,
DOI: 10.7228/manchester/9780719085208.001.0001.
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