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Abstract This article calls for cross-disciplinary scrutiny of the costs of time squeeze – beyond current preoccupation with time allocation and the organization of employment. Discussion turns to an integrated, materially embedded infrastructure of everyday life,... view more
This article calls for cross-disciplinary scrutiny of the costs of time squeeze – beyond current preoccupation with time allocation and the organization of employment. Discussion turns to an integrated, materially embedded infrastructure of everyday life, drawing on vignettes from in-depth biographies with London working families to put the time-squeeze into material context. Reference is made to generic decision ‘dilemmas’ commonly experienced across the sample: housing affordability, childcare shortage, transport failure and school choice. These illustrate the co-constitutive nature of urban inequalities and city time.... view less
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constraint; co-ordination; household; London; time squeeze;
Document language
English
Publication Year
2005
Page/Pages
p. 133-154
Journal
Time & Society, 14 (2005) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0961463X05050302
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
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