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Time Well Spent Time Well Spent Subjective Well-B eing and the Organization of Time Daniel Wheatley London • New York Published by Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd Unit A, Whitacre Mews, 26- 34 Stannary Street, London SE11 4AB www.rowmaninternational.com Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd.is an affiliate of Rowman & Littlefield 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706, USA With additional offices in Boulder, New York, Toronto (Canada), and Plymouth (UK) www.rowman.com Copyright 2017 © Daniel Wheatley, with Irene Hardill and Craig Bickerton All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN: HB 978- 1- 7834- 8425- 6 Library of Congress Cataloging-i n- Publication Data Available ISBN: 978-1-78348-425-6 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN: 978-1-78348-427-0 (electronic) The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—P ermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/ NISO Z39.48- 1992. Printed in the United States of America For Taid, 1923–2 016, and Indy, 2008– 2016 Contents Acknowledgements ix 1 Subjective Well-B eing and Time- Use: An Introduction 1 2 A Pluralist Perspective on Time-U se 29 3 Time-U se: The Historical and Policy Context 53 4 Work- Time, the Quality of Work, and Well-B eing 73 5 The Household Division of Labour and Flexibility in Paid Work 101 6 Care and Volunteering: The (Feel) Good Samaritan? (Irene Hardill and Daniel Wheatley) 125 7 Where to Next? Travel-t o- Work and Travel-f or- Work 151 8 Leisure Time: The Pursuit of Happiness? (Craig Bickerton and Daniel Wheatley) 173 9 The Organization of Time and Subjective Well-B eing: Key Findings and Implications for Public and Organizational Policy 199 Bibliography 221 Index 255 vii
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