Time for Life
Is it possible that Americans have more free time than they did thirty years ago? While few may believe it, research based on careful records of how we actually spend our time shows that we average more than an hour more free time per day than in the 1960s. Time-use experts John P. Robinson and Geoffrey Godbey received national attention when their controversial findings were first published in 1997. Now the book is updated, with a new chapter that includes results of the 1995–1997 data from...
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Is it possible that Americans have more free time than they did thirty years ago? While few may believe it, research based on careful records of how we actually spend our time shows that Americans have almost five hours more free time per week than in the 1960s. Here time-use experts John P. Robinson and Geoffrey Godbey explain this surprising trend and how it has come about. They also discuss why so few Americans apparently appreciate how their free time has increased or how that new free time is being used. Their unique source of time-use information, the Americans' Use of Time Project, is the only such detailed historical data archive in the United States. Every ten years the project has been asking thousands of Americans to report their daily activities on an hour-by-hour basis in time diaries. Booknews Through their national time diary surveys in each of the past three decadeswith 1990s study data in this update, Robinson (sociology, U. of Maryland) and Godbey (leisure studies, Pennsylvania State U.) confirm that Americans feel more stressed despite actually having gained about an hour of free time daily. Replete with trend graphics. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
1The use of time32The speedup of life : time-deepening243Interpreting the time famine434Measuring how people spend time575The overestimated workweek and trends in hours at work816Trends in housework and family care977Trends in personal care and travel1108Trends in free time, 1965-19851239Trends in television time and other media13610Home computers and use of time15411Social capital and the rest of free time16712Background predictors of time use18913Gender differences and trends : toward an androgynous society19714Widening age gaps in time use20515Status and racial differences in time use21616Perceptions of time pressure22917How people feel about their daily activities24118The results from inputs of time25219Comparisons with other countries26120Issues for the future28721Brother, can you spare some time?30322A 1990s update : trends since 1985319
