Time Pioneers

Karl H. Hörning and Anette Gerhardt are the authors of Time Pioneers: Flexible Working Time and New Lifestyles, published by Wiley.

"A most stimulating book ... important reading for anyone trying to understand contemporary social life." British Journal of Sociology "A welcome and novel contribution to the literature on the relationship between time, money, work and lifestyle. It raises questions about the way we live our lives." Time and Society"This excellent, thought-provoking sociological study should be widely read." Dr Barbara Adam, University of Wales

• Introduction. 1. Lifestyles and time relations in flux.2. Flexible working time - new perspectives and traditional forms of opposition.3. The revision of interpretative schemata - commitment and dissociation.4. The changed relationship between money and time.5. The time structures of the new lifestyle.6. The dynamic of the new lifestyle.7. Future prospects.Notes.Bibliography.Index.