Class, gender and time poverty: a time-use analysis of British workers’ free time resources

The time that remains at one’s own discretion after conducting daily work and personal care activities, has been previously recognized as a ‘primary good’ and an important welfare resource that provides opportunities for participation in social life and leisure. In recent years have witnessed an increasing preoccupation with the phenomenon of time poverty, drawing attention to the distribution of free time and its relationship to structural and family circumstances. In this article, it was propose a novel approach to the measurement of time poverty and d document its occurrence amongst British workers. A conceptualization of time poverty as a relative lack of free time resources vis-à-vis other members of the community is adopted.