Uses of Time

Author: Fundación Alternativas. Arantxa Zaguirre.
Subjects: Feminist Economics - Economy of care, Household work.
Review:The document confirms a reality that is often made invisible: the lack of protection suffered by domestic workers around their labor rights and the precariousness of the sector. 

Author: Ministry of Labor, Migrations and Social Security, ISTAS of Workers' Commissions, Centro Boliviano Catalán and diverse Migrant Women.
Subject: Feminist Economics - Economy of Care, Household Work.
Review: Document addressed to people contracted for home services and care. The booklet reflects the reflections of a group of domestic workers about their own work, which is characterized by the absence of rights, by the lack of recognition and appreciation, and by the existence of discrimination and even labor and sexual harassment.

Author: Ministry of Labor, Migration and Social Security, ISTAS of Workers' Commissions, the Bolivian Center of Catalonia and various Migrant Women.
Subject: Feminist Economics - Economics of Care, Home Work.
Review: Document addressed to contracting people of home services and care. The brochure aims to provide resources, advice and information to people in charge of recruitment so that they guarantee safe conditions of work for working people around various subjects such as cleaning products, working conditions or equipment and work tools, among others.

Ambit: Spain
Topic: Family - Conciliation - ICT - Familiar policies
Authorization: Luis Ayuso Sánchez.
Review: Publication in the Spanish Journal of Sociology. The family is at the same time a laboratory where many of the social changes affecting the whole society are experienced, but also as a basic catalyst for social transformation.

Author: Several authors: Coral Cuadrado Majó, Ada Lasheras González, Roser Marsal Aguilera and Carlota Royo Mata
Subjects: Feminist economics - Domestic and care work - Care economy - Uses of Time
This book focuses on oikonomy, that is, on the economy of life or the close relationship between work and life. In particular, it analyzes the economy that women have developed. To do so, it is divided into four chapters: Kemit (Egypt), late Roman period (from the 2nd to 5th century AD), the Middle Ages (in Catalonia and Italy, between the 13th and 15th centuries), and Victorian society. In each chapter a different way of understanding the historical work that women have developed with the aim of vindicating and giving the value that deserves the work of care, reproduction and production as fundamental tasks for the support of society.

Ambit: Catalonia
Subject: Immigration - Economy
Review: The report has been prepared by the Center for Trade Union Studies and Research (CERES) of CCOO of Catalonia, with the collaboration of the Department of Labor, Social Affairs and Families of the Government of Catalonia.It offers a collection of quantitative data on the foreign population in Catalonia and an analysis of its situation in the labor market. Next, he studies the work of foreign women and, more specifically, the profile of those engaged in domestic work and care. All have as their starting point the need for society to value domestic and care work, so that they improve the working and social conditions of the women who carry it out.

Direction: Diederik Ebbinge
Holland, 2013
Subjects: Paternities, Masculinities, Family, Sexuality, Religion.
Matterhorn presents the story of Fred, a Calvinist widower from the deepest and most conservative Netherlands who decides to adopt Theo, an adult with a mental age of five years. A vision of fatherhood, through a history of personal acceptance where dogmas such as sexuality, family or religion are questioned in a very healthy way.

Direction: Richard Linklater
EUA, 2014
Subjects: Childhood, Juventut, Family, Masculinities.
BoyHood tells the life of Mason, from six years to eighteen. It raises reflections on the changes of a modern family and the passage of time, as well as on the different models of masculinity in the family environment. He contrasts the role of the stepfather (a violent and authoritarian character) with that of a father less present and fragile, but complicit and open to emotions.

Direction: Cesc Gay
Spain, 2012
Subjects: Masculinities
Reflection, in the key of comedy, about masculinity from four chapters that explore and radiograph the sentimental and loving life of eight men.

Direction: Matt Ross
EEUU, 2016
Subjects: Family - Educationn
Ben lives with his wife and six children in the forests of northwestern America, totally isolated from modern life, cities and consumer society. When a tragedy occurs, the family has to leave their little paradise, a situation that confronts the children to the excitement and dangers of a world that is unfamiliar to them and in Ben who is forced to examine his vital stake

Author: Sílvia Soler 
Subjects: Family relationships - Care - Emigration - Vital stages
Columna Edicions, 2015 
A year and a half in the life of a contemporary family explained from the seasons. Newly retired parents and four brothers, three of whom, for various reasons, have to go and look for their lives. The eldest is an architect and lives in Canada, the second, a cook, lives in Paris, the third, an oceanographer, lives in Mallorca, and the youngest, surfer, is the only one who lives with his parents.