[PDF.98nw] A Time for Every Purpose: Law and the Balance of Life

A Time for Every Purpose: Law and the Balance of Life

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 | #3782494 in Books |  Harvard University Press |  2002-10-18 |  2002-11-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.42 x.95 x5.72l,.94 | File type: PDF | 240 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| How our culture shapes the rhythms of our life|By Jon Boorstin|In this cogent and insightful book, Rakoff uses the law's treatment of time to illuminate how we organize our lives, and the sort of choices we make without even knowing we're making them: how things we assume are fixed are the product of social choices, which can be changed; how the usual explanations for such appa| |A first-ever book about the law's regulation of time. Rakoff investigates a number of for-instances--such as the creation of time zones, Sunday closing laws, the length of the work week, school attendance--and argues that the weakening regulation of time has l

Who organizes our time? Who decides when we must be at work and at school, when we set back our clocks, and when retail stores will close? Todd Rakoff traces the law's effect on our use of time and discovers that the structure of our time is gradually changing. As Rakoff demonstrates, the law's influence is subtle, and so ubiquitous that we barely notice it. But its structure establishes the terms by which society allocates its efforts, coordinates its many players, e...

You easily download any file type for your device.A Time for Every Purpose: Law and the Balance of Life   |  Todd D. Rakoff. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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