The Routledge International Handbook of Time Use Themes and Applications: Time Use Research Volume 2

This two-volume handbook, written by leading international scholars, provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on the collection, analysis, and application of time use data. Time is a crucial yet finite social resource, fundamental to processes of growth, equality, and well-being.Much of the world’s essential production-raising children, preparing food, household maintenance-occurs within households, and relies on time, rather than monetary exchange, as its central input.Despite its centrality, this non-market dimension is often overlooked in official indicators.Time use diary data is increasingly recognised as the foremost source of reliable information on these key temporal dimensions of daily life. The second volume provides an authoritative outline of the contribution of time-use research to key contemporary scholarly and policy applications in both the Global North and the Global South.The chapters consist of a wide-ranging selection of exemplary contributions