ABSTRACT
There is a great deal of research with a time-geographic focus about commuting to work and about how working hours influence people’s daily lives. However, there is not so much research on what is happening inside workplaces; how production and work is organized and how the internal work organization influences people’s lives. This chapter presents some time-geographic takes on work organization, both from a historic and current perspective. Some examples relate to macro-level organizational change, while others concern the individual micro level. The influence of employees’ work tasks on their family life is discussed in terms of the work task as an intersection of the workplace with its organizational project and the household with its overall organization project. The chapter aims to inspire further time-geographical studies of the link between, on one hand, work organization and production and the processes of urbanization and, on the other hand, specialization and the everyday lives of people.
