Free Time

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20023923
AutoresJulie L Rose (0000-0002-0553-0524, autor correspondente), Julie Rose
Ano2016
Páginas184
Data de publicação2016-11-08
Open AccessSim
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoFree Time (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraPrinceton University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.23943/princeton/9780691163451.001.0001
OpenAlexW4249041682
Open LibraryOL29317581M
ISBN9780691163451
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas44

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. This book argues that these views are fundamentally mistaken. First, it contends that free time is a resource, like money, that one needs in order to pursue chosen ends. Further, realizing a just distribution of income and wealth is not sufficient to ensure a fair distribution of free time. Because of this, anyone concerned with distributive justice must attend to the distribution of free time. On the basis of widely held liberal principles, the book explains why citizens are entitled to free time—time not committed to meeting life's necessities and instead available for chosen pursuits. The novel argument that the just society must guarantee all citizens their fair share of free time provides principled grounds to address critical policy choices, including work hours regulations, Sunday closing laws, public support for caregiving, and the pursuit of economic growth. The book demonstrates why all citizens have, in the words of early labor reformers, a right to “hours for what we will.”

Argument (complex analysis) · Basic income · Distribution (mathematics) · Distributive justice · Economic Justice · Economics · Inequality · Law and economics · Microeconomics · Notice · Order (exchange) · Political science · Preference · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Political Economy and Marxism · Freizeit · Leisure · Philosophy · Social aspects · Soziale Gerechtigkeit · Time management