Time use, technology and the future of work

This paper, which won the 1986 MRS Gold Medal, reviews preliminary results from a study of changing time-use patterns over the previous half-century, as a basis for speculation about future activity patterns.
  

Time use, technology, and the future of work

Jonathan I GershunyUniversity of Bath

ECONOMIC GROWTH AND SOCIOTECHNICAL INNOVATION

How does technical innovation change the world? We all know about its effect on labour productivity. Technical change means that, for a given amount of work, we get more product: new tools, new forms of organisation, allow us to produce more goods and services for each minute of work. If we produce more goods and services, then we must also consume them. So technical change means that we produce more in our work time, and consume more in our...

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