{"id":26700,"date":"2015-05-01T02:48:46","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T02:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/having-leisure-time-is-now-a-marker-for-poverty\/"},"modified":"2015-05-01T02:48:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T02:48:46","slug":"having-leisure-time-is-now-a-marker-for-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/having-leisure-time-is-now-a-marker-for-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"Having leisure time is now a marker for poverty, not\u00a0riches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com\/post\/117620265431\/having-leisure-time-is-now-a-marker-for-poverty\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">mostlysignssomeportents<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/b818c6a7ff6c32b55bd66939233ac55c\/tumblr_inline_nnhhbb2XOJ1rkw4x1_540.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sociology.ox.ac.uk\/working-papers\/post-industrious-society-why-work-time-will-not-disappear-for-our-grandchildren.html\"><br \/>\nPost-Industrious Society: Why Work Time will not Disappear for our Grandchildren<\/a>,<br \/>\n researchers from Oxford\u2019s Centre for Time Use Research argue that there<br \/>\n has been a radical shift in the relationship between leisure, work and<br \/>\nincome. Where once leisure time was a mark of affluence, now it is a<br \/>\nmarker for poverty. The richer you are, the more likely you are to work<br \/>\nlong hours; while the poorer you are, the fewer hours you are likely to<br \/>\nwork every week.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe researchers theorise multiple causes for this. Poor people are more<br \/>\nlikely to be underemployed and unable to get the work-hours they want<br \/>\n(and need) to support themselves. Rich people are likely to work in jobs<br \/>\n that disproportionately advance and reward workers who put in overtime,<br \/>\n so a 10% increase in hours worked generates more than 10% in expected<br \/>\ncareer-gains.\n<\/p>\n<p> They also claim that rich workers are more likely to be satisfied with<br \/>\ntheir jobs, but I\u2019m skeptical of this \u2013 I think that relative to<br \/>\nunskilled workers doing at-will 0-hours temp work whose every move is<br \/>\nconstrained and scripted by their employers, this is probably true, but I<br \/>\n don\u2019t think that the white-collar world is producing a lot of people<br \/>\nwho think that their work is meaningful and rewarding. <\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2014\/04\/23\/having-leisure-time-is-now-a-m.html\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><br \/><\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mostlysignssomeportents: In Post-Industrious Society: Why Work Time will not Disappear for our Grandchildren, researchers from Oxford\u2019s Centre for Time Use Research argue that there has been a radical shift in the relationship between leisure, work and income. Where once leisure time was a mark of affluence, now it is a marker for poverty. 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