Uses of Time

Influence of biological rhythms and clocks on health and society. Chronobiology, biological rhythms and public policy.

Scope: International
Topic: Chronobiology
Author: Diego Golombek
 

Review: Chronobiology is the science that studies biological rhythms and their individual and social consequences. This document aims to direct us towards the circadian city and to explore the public policies necessary to optimize our biological and social times.

Scope: Barcelona
Topic: Time Policies
Authorship: Directorate of Feminisms and LGTBI Services

Summary: This second edition compiles the activities carried out in the year 2023. It includes reflective articles on a key topic such as time poverty, as well as summaries of the main activities promoted during the year in which new entities have joined the Time Pact. Finally, the document recounts the international spaces and projects where Barcelona is a key agent in time policies.

Scope: Barcelona
Topic: Time Policies
Authorship: Directorate of Feminisms and LGTBI Services
Summary: This second edition analyzes the municipal actions in force during 2023, introducing a comparative view relative to the previous period that highlights their growth. The report includes the main indicators of the implementation of time policies through both quantitative and qualitative analysis, and identifies the future challenges necessary to continue advancing the right to time.

Scope: Barcelona
Theme: Working time
Authors: Dr. Sílvia Cóppulo and Dr. Jordi Pereira, from the Business Leadership Observatory - UPF Barcelona School of Management and Barcelona Activa
Review: The present research work is located in the current social and labor context, when they look to balance the advantages and disadvantages of telework.

Scope: Barcelona
Theme: Pacte del Temps
Authors: Directorate of Gender Services and Time Policies
Ressenya: First Yearbook of the Pacte del Temps that compiles the activities carried out throughout 2022. It includes articles reflecting on its evolution and on key issues, such as children's right to time, the relationship between time poverty and public health, and sustainability. Finally, it also summarises the main actions carried out in the framework of the World Capital of Time Policy, which Barcelona will hold for 2022.

Scope: Barcelona
Theme: Time policies
Autoria: Directorate of Gender Services and Time Policies
Summary: The time policies in force during 2022 are analysed. The aim is to provide an overview of the situation, give visibility to the work done and identify challenges to be addressed in the future. It summarises the main indicators of policy implementation, and details the status according to the seven axes that make up the Time Pact.

Scope: International
Theme: Economics of care - Household work.
Author: Ángela García Bernardos, Elisa Covelo, Elba Mansilla, María Alejandra Peña. Under the direction of Raquel Gallego.
Summary: The document explores and analyses different models of intervention in the care economy and the home with the aim of generating new models of intervention and approach that promote the universality, dignity and sustainability of these services.

Language: Spanish
Area: Barcelona
Subject: Economics of care
Authors: Sandra Ezquerra (University of Vic); Elba Mansilla (The Invisible City) and City Hall of Barcelona.
Review: Exploring the provision and reception of care in the city of Barcelona, carrying out qualitative interviews with recipients and providers of care, with the objective of formulating action recommendations to democratize it and place it at the center of political, social and economic priorities

Authors: Cristina Carrasco Bengoa; Retired Professor, Department of Economics, University of Barcelona. Andrés Coco Prieto, Department of Sociology (University of Barcelona) Barcelona, 2018.
This study makes it possible to incorporate new indicators into surveys that reflect the current situation from a quantitative and qualitative point of view, in order to influence the development and implementation of public policies that are appropriate to the needs of citizens.

Area: Catalonia
Subject: Time management-Conciliation and co-responsibility
Authors: Women Directors and Professionals of Social Action and Barcelona City Council
The study analyzes the situation and the challenges that the social sector faces in moving towards a management of the times that take into account the universal lanecessitat of compatibilitzarles care, the working day and personal and social times.

Language: Catalan
Direction: Programs of New Social Uses of the Time. Council of Barcelona 
Collaboration: Institute of Education. Council of Barcelona and Foundation Jaume Bofill 
Writing: Elena Sintes Pascual 
Barcelona, 2010 
The collection publication and it unifies the different studies carried out among 2005 and 2010 in the neighborhoods that kept on incorporating into the "Neighbourhood time, shared education time". The diagnostic carried out allowed to know the needs and demands, in relation to the out-of-school activities, of the agents and the families of the different territories.
 

Research team: Elena Sintes, Jordi Serra, Albert Cónsola and Antoni Ramon
Barcelona, 2006 
Established by: Barcelona Institute of Regional and Metropolitan Studies Research Group (IERMB) and Barcelona City Council Department for Uses of Time
Exhaustive description of social uses of time in the city of Barcelona and its metropolitan area from 1985 to 2006 and approximation to future scenarios.
Document in Catalan

Director: Carme Miralles-Guasch
Coordinator: Elena Sintes Pascual
Assistance: Maties Vives Campdepadrós
Barcelona, 2007
Established by: Barcelona City Council Department for Uses of Time and IERMB
Study of the impact of the growth of the city into a metropolis on people's uses of time. A vision of the main problems caused by this territorial structure on the way people manage their time and their personal development.

Author: Special Research Centre on Everyday Life (QUIT) 
Barcelona, 2007
Established by: Barcelona City Council Department for Uses of Time and Barcelona Economic and Social Council (CESB)
Review of changes in labour relations in Europe due to changes in work times. The study concludes with descriptions of a number of proposals for action and initiatives regarding uses of time in Catalonia and Spain.
Document in Catalan

Authors: Annabel Jové, Iolanda Blesa and Silvia Hidalgo Alcázar (support)
Barcelona, 2007
Established by: Barcelona City Council Department for Uses of Time and Barcelona Economic and Social Council (CESB)
Study and description of companies that have launched initiatives with direct impact on their employees' time. The conclusions and recommendations seek to provide a reference for companies in all sectores.
Document in Catalan

Promoters: Barcelona City Council's Department of Time Use and IERMB
Barcelona, 2006
In 2006 an extension of the study L'ús social del temps a Barcelona (The social use of time in Barcelona) was carried out with data collected that same year.

Established by: Barcelona City Council Department for Uses of Time and IERMB 
Barcelona, 2006
This study, based on the 1985, 1990, 1995 and 2000 surveys of living conditions and habits, provides information on the strategies employed by the people of Barcelona as regards time, as well as their perceptions of the issue and the ways they organise the different time spheres.

Established by: Department for Uses of Time and Barcelona City Council Department Directorate for Study and Evaluation Services 
Barcelona, 2006
Based on 800 interviews, the survey describes public perceptions of uses of time and the public space. 
Document in Catalan