Free Time (eBook)

Julie L. Rose (Autor)

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2016
184 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8368-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Julie L. Rose is assistant professor of government at Dartmouth College.

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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 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, Rose 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.Delving into an original topic that touches everyone, Free Time demonstrates why all citizens have, in the words of early labor reformers, a right to "e;hours for what we will."e;

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.11.2016
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: americans • a modest proposal • A Theory of Justice • Basic Books • basic income • Basic Needs • beneficiary • Brown University • Cambridge University Press • Capitalism • Career • caregiver • Caregivers • Caregiving • Charles Beitz • child care • Citizens (Spanish political party) • cleanliness • Commodity • Comparative Advantage • concurrence • Consideration • Contemplation • Cornell University • Dartmouth College • Disability • distributive justice • economic freedom • Economic Growth • Economics • effective freedoms • egalitarianism • Egalitarian justice • Employment • Equality of outcome • Equal Opportunity • family values • family wage • Free choice • Freedom of association • Freedom of movement • Free Exercise Clause • free time • Gender • gender justice • Guarantee • Harvard University • Household • Household responsibilities • income • Individualism • Inequality • Institution • Isaac Kramnick • John Sloan Dickey • Justice as Fairness • just society • labor demand • labor regulations • Legislation • Leisure • liberal egalitarianism • Liberalism • Liberal justice • liberal neutrality • liberal proceduralism • Market (economics) • Massachusetts Institute of Technology • McGowan v. Maryland • meal • MONEY • natural resource • necessary activities • necessary activity • Neglect • Norm (social) • Obligation • Occupational Choice • opportunity cost • Overtime • Oxford University Press • paid work • parenting • Parents • paternalism • Philip Pettit • Play • Political Philosophy • Political Science • Prerogative • Primary goods • Princeton University • Provision (contracting) • Public Good • Public Policy • Real freedom • Recreation • Regulation • Requirement • resources • Responsibility • rights • Russell Muirhead • Self-Employment • Self-ownership • shared free time • social equality • Social Philosophy • Society • specific goods • spouse • Stanford University • Statute • Subsidy • Sunday closing laws • Sunday Closing (Wales) Act 1881 • Time-use research • Trade-off • Tradition • Unemployment • United States • Value of Time • wage • Wealth • welfare • Welfare policies • Welfare State • well-being • Workers • Workforce • work hours • Working Time • workplace • Workweek and weekend
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8368-7 / 1400883687
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8368-4 / 9781400883684