Time Use and the Dynamics of the Service Sector

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This article looks at the historical dynamics of service provision from a rather unusual perspective - the change of patterns of time use. It discusses a mechanism whereby activity patterns in 'the economy' may be accounted for in terms of time rather than money, and shows how this form of economic activity is associated with other ('extra-economic') sorts of productive and leisure activities. It presents time-budget data, from a number of different developed economies, showing historical changes in time allocation patterns, and relates these to more conventional indicators of economic structure.The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. Citation: Gershuny, J. (1987). 'Time use and the dynamics of the service sector', The Service Industries Journal 7(4), 56-71. [Available at http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=0264%2d2069&volume=7&issue=4&spage=56]. N.B. Prof Gershuny is based at St Hugh's College and the Department of Sociology, University of Oxford

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