Public time policies
Barcelona Declaration on Time Policies
Language: English
Scope: international
Authorship: Different administrations and entities. Overview:
The Declaration includes the commitments of the signatory organizations, among which is the Barcelona City Council, as well as the action plan defined for the period 2024-2026.
Education on time. Other school schedules are possible.
Language: Spanish
Area: Spain
Authorship: Jaume Bofill Foundation and Federation of pedagogical renewal movements of Catalonia
Review: How can we move towards a healthier and more egalitarian school model? The document, based on the analysis of the impact of the current school model, the collection of expert voices and the identification of international experiences, proposes an alternative schedule that includes specific measures.
The foundational study for a future Law on the Use of Time and Time Rationalization
Language: Spanish
Area: Spain
Authorship: Time Use Initiative
Review: The study proposes 84 measures that contribute to improving the health of employees, equality, the capacity for conciliation and social co-responsibility, and the productivity of companies and organizations and environmental and social sustainability.
Monographic RScat 3
Area: Catalonia
Subject: Social conciliation - responsibility
Author: RScat,2015
Compilation of public policies implemented in Catalonia environment to social responsibility to public procurement.
Equality Law
Size: 2,929 MB
Language: Spanish
Area: Europe
Subject: Equality
The Spanish Ministry for Equality instigated the Equality Law, aimed at promoting the advancement of women. Amongst others, it seeks to foster moves towards a more equitable distribution of time between men and women. To this end, the law offers local authorities and autonomous communities tools to establish municipal plans for organising time and provides technical assistance for implementing such plans.
Prato: a permanent laboratory for urban accessibility (Comune di Prato, Italy)
Area: Europe
Subject: Family - Timetables - Work - Urban Planning
The Prato local authority website contains projects and resources on the use of time, focusing on town planning, time maps and the life/work balance. The site provides access to a selected bibliography on the use of time provided by Prato public library.
Give and Take: How Timebanking is Transforming Healthcare
Ambit: London
Subject: Time to share - Banks of the time
Author: David Boyle and Sarah Bird
Review: Set of experiences related to time banks outpatient south London that have improved the health of its members and the community in general.
The mine
Author: Armando López Salinas
Subject: social Classes - work
Barcelona: I Am Destined, 1977
One of the most significant works of the social novel of Spanish posguerra. Portrait trustworthy of the world of the work of the miners.
Private life
Author: Josep M. de Sagarra
Subject: Urban Area - classes social
Barcelona: Prow, 2000
, Possibly the big novel of Barcelona. Incomparable portrait of a period, of a space that he|she|it changes to the frantic rhythm that imposes the modernity and of a social class incapable of adapting oneself to it.
The raw material
Author: Francesc Serés
Subject: Work
Barcelona: Empúries, 2007
On Horseback among the stories and the journalistic reports, Serés, one of the more distinguished Catalan writers of his generation, offers us a thorough portrait of the world of the work in Catalonia.
The Tregua
Author: Mario Benedetti
Subject: Old Age
Madrid: Alianza, 1999
Written in the form of false dietary La tregua is a poetic approach to old age and the last will.
The misfortunes of the youngster Werther
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Subject: social Classes - youth
Barcelona: Editions 62, 1999
Possibly the most successful training novel ever written. The charisma of its protagonist reached far beyond the pages of the book.
