According to a wide variety of authors, we are witnessing a fundamental tra
nsformation and change in the structure of modern Western economy and socie
ty. Most authors situate the starting point of this transformation process
somewhere in the middle of the seventies. The goal of this article is to po
rtray from a temporal point of view the impact of this process for the Neth
erlands, that is, to analyze on an aggregate level the consequences of the
spread of more flexible, decentralised forms of labour process and work org
anisation, and/or of the erosion of traditional habits and customs, for the
temporal structure of everyday life. For that purpose, national time-budge
t data of 1995 are confronted with comparable data of 1975.