Time, Consumption and Everyday Life : Practice, Materiality and Culture (Hardcover)

List of Tables and Figures, List of Contributors, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Section I: Time, Space and Practice, 1. Everyday Practice and the Production and Consumption of Time, 2. Timespace and the Organization of Social Life, 3. Re-ordering Temporal Rhythms: Coordinating Daily Practices in the UK in 1937 and 2000, Section II: Pace and Scale: Temporal Order and Disruption, 4. Disruption is Normal: Blackouts, Breakdowns and the Elasticity of Everyday Lif, 5. My Soul for a Seat: Commuting and the Routines of Mobility, 6. Routines Made and Unmade, Section III: Rhythms, Patterns and Temporal Cycles of Consumption, 7. Calendars and Clocks: Cycles of Horticultural Commerce in Nineteenth-Century America, 8. Fads, Fashions and 'Real' Innovations: Novelties and Social Change, 9. The Edge of Agency: Routines, Habits and Volition, Section IV: The Temporalities of Stuff, 10. Buying Time, 11. Seasonal and Commercial Rhythms of Domestic Consumption: A Japanese Case Study, 12. Special and Ordinary Times: Tea in Motion, 13. Making Time: Reciprocal Object Relations and the Self-legitimizing Time of Wooden Boating, 14. The Ethics of Routine: Consciousness, Tedium and Value, Index