The Tensions between Process Time and Clock Time in Care-Work

The Example of Day Nurseries

Bibliographic Data

ID4356349
AuthorsKaren Davies (0000-0001-5769-7521, corresponding author)
Year1994
Volume3
Issue3
Pages277-303
Publication date1994-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTime & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0961-463X • E-ISSN: 1461-7463
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0961463x94003003002
OpenAlexW2136266593
LanguageEN
Citations received99
References cited16

Implicit or explicit in work on care and caring has been the issue of time. Notwithstanding this fact, however, time itself has not been sufficiently problematized. In the first part of this paper, the concept of process time is introduced and its relevance for an understanding of care-work is suggested. Drawing on data from a qualitative study of day nurseries in Sweden, the second part of the paper explores various tensions and conflicts that (can) arise in this type of care-work due to the intermeshing of clock/linear time and process time. The implications, in relation to present day economic cuts, are also briefly discussed

Care work · Epistemology · Political science · Process (computing · Relation (database · Relevance (law · Sociology · Work (physics · Work time · Computer Science · Engineering · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Sociology and Education Studies