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International Association of Time Use Research (IATUR)

Annual Conference 2002

15 - 18 October Lisbon, Portugal

ISEG - Institute of Economics and Business Administration

Technical University of Lisbon

Work Time and Leisure Time:

Dynamics and Convergence in Changing Contexts

Sponsored by:

Research Centre on Portuguese Economy (CISEP)**

and

Centre for Studies for Social Intervention (CESIS)

The last two decades have exhibited significant political, social, technological and economic change. The Western European countries have been experiencing integration. More recently this has been augmented by the needs and desires of the Transition Economies. In North America the Free-trade Agreement among the US, Canada and Mexico has also brought about significant change. The impacts of these changes have not gone unfelt by many other developed and less developed countries that have also seen significant change. On one hand, there is change-taking place in the structure and contents of working time and leisure time uses (in contexts of rapid technical and social innovation) within countries. At the same time, social, political, and economic forces are operating to bring about convergence under the catch-all term "Globalization." Little is really known about the effect of these forces on time-use. To what extent are there differences and to what extent growing similarities and convergence among various societies and economies concerning time use patterns? The answers to these questions, in a contemporary framework, are unclear.

There is considerable data available to address these questions. In many developed economies, and several transition economies, there is a history of time use to support exploration of changing time use. More significantly there is a growing pool of data from less developed countries that can be drawn on to explore differences and similarities in time-use. It is important that such data get explored so as to provide a basis for evaluating trends and changes in the future.

Papers are sought which will advance our understanding of the qualitative changes and dynamics of time use and organization (time of paid and unpaid work, time of leisure, personal time, social time, working time etc.) in the contexts of rapid change in differing domains: institutional, demographic, economic, technological and spatial. In particular, papers are sought which present insight into how time-use data can be used to measure and evaluate meaningful change (positive or negative and intra-national or international) emerging from the basic forces of change at work.

Conference Organisers:

Andrew Harvey

International Association of Time Use Research - (IATUR President )

Time Use Research Program (TURP Director)

Saint Mary’s University - Halifax-Canada.

Kimberly Fisher

International Association of Time Use Research - (IATUR Secretary-Treasurer ) Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)

Multinational Time Use Study (MTUS)

Essex University, Colchester – U.K.

Elsa Fontainha

Research Centre on the Portuguese Economy (CISEP)

Institute of Economics and Business Administration (ISEG)

Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon - Portugal

Heloísa Perista

Centre for Studies on Social Intervention (CESIS) - Portugal

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* ISEG is the oldest economics faculty in Portugal and is currently celebrating its 91st anniversary. ISEG is located near the centre of Lisbon, in front of the National Parliament.

* * CISEP is a research unit of the Institute of Economics and Business Administration of the Technical University of Lisbon. (http://www.iseg.utl.pt/cisep). CISEP is financed by the Foundation for Science and Technology