Public time policies

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.

Portada de la guia

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.

 

portada estudi

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.

Nosotras que lo quisimos todo

Author: Sonsoles Ónega 
Subjects: Conciliation - Work - Uses of the time 
Planet, 2015 
Fiction based on the life of the author that it reflects like afterwards of made haber all duties the women continue fighting for a real equality in the work world that allows them to reconcile their personal and family life.