ABSTRACT
The project concept, when combined with the path concept, allows for a more explicit linkage to be drawn between individual life content and society's temporal and spatial organization. In time-geographic terms, a project consists of the entire series of simple or complex tasks necessary to the completion of any intention-inspired or goal-oriented behavior. As the practices and relations of the family rarely exist in isolation, individual participation in family projects must be juxtaposed with the time-geographic requirements and constraints of other organizationally or institutionally defined projects. The time discipline characteristic of factory and large-scale shop production projects was made necessary by the objectives of profitseeking employers and the division of labor within the manufacturing unit itself. The time-discipline and "coupling constraints" imposed upon essential family projects by individual participation in industrial production projects were accentuated by the separation of home and work made necessary by the factory and large-scale shop mode of production.
