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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.--jacket. Foreword / Robert D. Putnam -- 1. Use Of Time -- 2. Speedup Of Life: Time-deepening -- 3. Interpreting The Time Famine -- 4. Measuring How People Spend Time -- 5. Overestimated Workweek And Trends In Hours At Work -- 6. Trends In Housework And Family Care -- 7. Trends In Personal Care And Travel -- 8. Trends In Free Time, 1965-1985 -- 9. Trends In Television Time And Other Media

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Author

John P. Robinson and Geoffrey Godbey

Publisher

Pennsylvania State University Press

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780271016528

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Home & Lifestyle, Social Science, Management