The Temporal Welfare State

Goodin, Robert; Parpo, Antti; Kangas, Olli

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The Temporal Welfare State

Date

2004

Authors

Goodin, Robert

Parpo, Antti

Kangas, Olli

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Abstract

Welfare states contribute to people's well-being in many different ways. One way of bringing those contributions under a common metric is in terms of 'temporal autonomy': the freedom to spend one's time as one will, outside the necessities of daily life.