Introduces the special issue on time and management which draws together analyses of these issues from across the European Union.

Working time patterns are moving away from the traditional pattern of regularity, standardisation and co‐ordination to a new triptych of individualism, heterogeneity and irregularity. Seeks to make sense of these changes through the concept of hora management as an approach to manage the...

CONTENTS List of illustrations x Acknowledgments xi List of abbreviations xiv Introduction 1 1 The coordination of time 23 Spatio-temporal approaches ...