ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on time and social work in a world where changes in technology are impacting experiences of time. Manuel Castells writes 'time is now experienced in new ways linked to the development of communication technologies'. The chapter explains the work of Barbara Adam, time is examined including those in Castells' writings, with reference to the work of Anthony Giddens. Time as a measurable resource structures the activities of the social work day, week, and year, as well as the cycles of practice; the beginnings, middle and endings of interventions. In contrast community social work, or community development, has a different time emphasis. Community development supports collective concerns that prefigure collective action for purposeful social justice developments. Thinking about time is a way to think about the diversity of human experience and the interactions with social structures and the micro social worlds in which people live.
