Confronting the time bind: work, family, and capitalism.

From: Monthly Review | Date: February 1, 1998| Author: Meikins, Peter | Copyright information

Arlie Russel Hochschild's "The Time Bind" suggests that capitalist work time should be made flexible to give workers the freedom to allocate time for work, for family and other endeavors. Working mothers, for example, tend to work more because they need to than because they want to.

Socialists have long contended that capitalism produces distinctive and undesirable structures of time. Marx argued that capitalism created an ineluctable downward pressure on wages, forcing workers ...

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