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Free Time
Julie Rose
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Description for Free Time
Hardback. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 166 x 246 x 22. Weight in Grams: 448.
Recent debates about inequality have focused almost exclusively on the distribution of wealth and disparities in income, but little notice has been paid to the distribution of free time. Free time is commonly assumed to be a matter of personal preference, a good that one chooses to have more or less of. Even if there is unequal access to free time, the cause and solution are presumed to lie with the resources of income and wealth. In Free Time, Julie Rose argues that these views are fundamentally mistaken. First, Rose contends that free time is a resource, like money, that ... Read more
Recent debates about inequality have focused almost exclusively on the distribution of wealth and disparities in income, but little notice has been paid to the distribution of free time. Free time is commonly assumed to be a matter of personal preference, a good that one chooses to have more or less of. Even if there is unequal access to free time, the cause and solution are presumed to lie with the resources of income and wealth. In Free Time, Julie Rose argues that these views are fundamentally mistaken. First, Rose contends that free time is a resource, like money, that ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
447g
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691163451
SKU
V9780691163451
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About Julie Rose
Julie L. Rose is assistant professor of government at Dartmouth College.
Reviews for Free Time
Methodically and insightfully, [Rose] dismantles the assertion ... that we all choose our leisure patterns... Highly recommended.
Karen Shook, Times Higher Education
Karen Shook, Times Higher Education