changing TIMEs

Ref: Arlie Russell Hochschild (1997), The Time Bind: .. New York: Metropolitan Books (pp: 257-258)

The TIME experiment at ESI, Xerox, and Amerco involve modest, practical adjustments whose true lesson is that our time bind is not an immutable given but something we could alter. To make such changes, however, we have to DARE to want to change.

One thing we can learn is that small groups of people can bring about changes in culture and habit that an individual would NOT dare to attempt alone.

Any successful movement for social change begins with a VISION OF LIFE as it could be, with the notion that something potential could become REAL. So let's imagine ...

Let's imagine PTA meetings to which a large majority of the parents came, libraries where working parents can afford to devote their spare time to reading or literacy programs, and community gardens in which they and their CHILDren have the leisure to grow fresh vegetables. Picture ...

BUT vision alone will not be ENOUGH. ..