Time Devoted to Work and Free Time: Socio-Historical Processes of Construction of Working Time
Keywords:
Time, Time Dedicated to Work, Free Time, Time Available, Formal Workday.Abstract
This essays aims to discuss how working time exceeds the formal working time from the following three categories of analysis: (i) working time socially necessary or simply working times required, (ii) time devoted to work or time available and (iii) free time (which comprises the so-called "time socially expendable", when referring to the idle time and "time socially available", which is mediated by the speed resulting from the emerging transformations in the contemporary world). The concept of time spent in this essay is part of a theoretical design that tries to capture this category as social and historical construction and not as an abstract arbitrary category. This will be dealt with the conceptions of the temporal structure of working time and free time, trying to understand how the border of working time invaded subtly the spare time of the subject employee, making these fluid times, tense, urgent and flexible. This time trapped not by a thorough control of the activity, to adapt the body to work, but for devices that mobilize the subject from goals and projects, channeling all of their potential for capital purposes. The arguments developed in this essay let suggest that working time must correspond to that time in which the worker produces the equivalent to your own value. Over time is the one that goes beyond the time required. In this way, the working time required does not constitute, in the capital system, working time or time available, because this also includes the time needed to produce the worker own value and the work over time.
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