Time is the basic resource of the household, according to Friedmann, not money. The household allocates the time of individual members to different tasks, areas of life, and domains of social practice in order to live. “poor households…rely heavily on non-market relations both for securing their livelihood and pursuing their life goals” (Friedmann 1992, 45). The poor cannot rely on money to satisfy their needs. This often makes poor households invisible to economic research.
