{"resolved":true,"match_type":"uuid","source_type":"original_book","book_id":"0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","title":"Pressed for Time The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism","author":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"year":null,"isbn":"9780226196473","requested_by":"printed_page","book":{"source_type":"original_book","book_id":"0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","id":"0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","uuid":"0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","title":"Pressed for Time The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism","normalized_title":"pressedfortimetheaccelerationoflifeindigitalcapitalism","author":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"year":null,"isbn":"9780226196473","isbns":["9780226196473","9780226196503"],"parsed":true,"ai_readable":true,"document_type":"book","page_count":228,"navigation_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/ai/book/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","title_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/ai/title/Pressed%20for%20Time%20The%20Acceleration%20of%20Life%20in%20Digital%20Capitalism","fixed_page_url_template":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/ai/book/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50/page/{printed_page}","path_api_url_template":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/book/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50/page/{printed_page}","read_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/read/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","page_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/books/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50/page","search_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/books/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50/search"},"page":{"printed_page":66,"pdf_page":78,"physical_index":78,"physical_index_base":0,"printed_page_status":"recognized","page_sha256":"e0777a42364588cf4daaa1518982d6e8e462348ec01c771f9ad4197693ed6729"},"chapter":"Pressed for Time","content":"It is as if much of the paid work has been transferred from men to women. The resulting dual-earner households are supplying more working hours to the labor market than ever before. Time pressure is especially strong in families with dependants, where both husband and wife are in full-time employment. The widespread perception that life has become more rushed, therefore, has as much to do with real increases in the combined work commitments of family members as it is about changes in the working time of individuals. “What, for more than a decade, has been taken to be a controversy about overwork (i.e., trends in individual hours)  .  .  . is actually a manifestation of the dificulties of reconciling (paid) work and family responsibilities, following the historical demise of the male breadwinner model.”16 This transformation in family composition and gender relations is central to explaining the time deficit.\n\nIn order to understand our experience of living in an acceleration society then, we need to consider how households are organizing their working and nonworking lives and be attuned to gender diferences in time pressure. Feminist scholars have long argued that the squeeze placed on women’s time is due to combining paid employment with their responsibility for the household’s operation.17 Indeed, time-use data suggest that time poverty is a particularly widespread experience among working mothers, who juggle work, family, and leisure.\n\nUnsurprisingly, single mothers feel the worst about the time they allocate to their children and their numbers have expanded greatly since the 1960s.18 The breakdown of marriages involving children can radically exacerbate time pressure if a lone parent is forced to serve as both breadwinner and homemaker. When children are reared outside a twoparent home, fathers are much less likely than mothers to shoulder the day-to-day responsibility of caregiving—that is, fathers are far likelier than mothers to drop the parental role altogether. Mothers cope by reducing their hours of paid work, especially when the children are young, in order to perform the household work and child care. As lone mothers are overrepresented among the poor, they are also unlikely to be able to buy paid domestic help. Lone parents, then, have much less discretionary time than dual-earner couples, with or without children.\n\nChapter three\n\n66","previous_page":65,"next_page":67}