If time management is not simply an issue of numerical hours but of some people having more control over their time than others, then the most realistic and expansive version of time management has to be collective: It has to entail a different distribution of power and security. In the realm of policy, that would mean things that seem obviously related to time—for example, subsidized childcare, paid leave, better overtime laws, and “fair workweek laws,” which seek to make part-time employees’ schedules more predictable and to compensate them when they are not. Less obviously related to
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