Family Time: The Social Organization of CareNancy Folbre, Michael Bittman The time we have to care for one another, especially for our children and our elderly, is more precious to us than anything else in the world. Yet we have more experience accounting for money than we do for time. In this volume, leading experts in analysis of time use from across the globe explore the interface between time use and family policy. The contributors: * show how social institutions limit the choices that individuals can make about how to divide their time between paid and unpaid work This informative and enlightening book is well researched, well thought through and well written. An important read for students of feminist economics, sociology and gender studies, the contributors here argue that time is not money, in fact time is more important than money. |
Contents
The big picture | 5 |
A theory of the misallocation of time | 7 |
Family time and public policy in the United States | 25 |
Using the yardstick of time to capture care | 49 |
Activity proximity or responsibility? Measuring parental childcare time | 51 |
Making the invisible visible the life and times of informal caregivers | 69 |
Valuing childcare and elder care | 91 |
Bringing up Bobby and Betty the inputs and outputs of childcare time | 93 |
Packaging care what happens when children receive nonparental care? | 133 |
Parenting and employment what timeuse surveys show | 152 |
The rush hour the quality of leisure time and gender equity | 171 |
International comparisons | 195 |
A tale of dualearner families in four countries | 197 |
Parenthood without penalty timeuse and public policy in Australia and Finland | 224 |
details of Australian timeuse surveys | 238 |
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