Easy Living
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-0223-0 (ISBN)
How did Americans come to believe that working at home is feasible, productive, and desirable? Easy Living examines how the idea of working within the home was constructed and disseminated in popular culture and mass media during the twentieth century. Through the analysis of national magazines and newspapers, television and film, and marketing and advertising materials from the housing, telecommunications, and office technology industries, Easy Living traces changing concepts about what it meant to work in the home. These ideas reflected larger social, political-economic, and technological trends of the times. Elizabeth A. Patton reveals that the notion of the home as a space that exists solely in the private sphere is a myth, as the social meaning of the home and its market value in relation to the public sphere are intricately linked.
ELIZABETH A. PATTON is an assistant professor of media and communication studies at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is the co-editor of Home Sweat Home: Perspectives on Housework and Modern Relationships.
Contents
Introduction
Part I: Where Does Work Belong?: Toward a New Conception of Home
1 The Home and Its Function
2 Industry Stay Out
3 The Telephone and Better Living
4 Portable Typewriters for Home Use
Part II: Consuming Office Practices and Technology in the Postwar Suburban Middle-Class Home
5 The Quest for Easy Livin' in the Suburban Home
6 The Big Business of Homemaking
7 Junior-sized Offices
8 An Office Away from the Office
Part III: The Birth of the Live-Work Lifestyle
9 Real Men Live in the City
10 Pseudo-Bohemian Bacherlorettes
11 Work Where You Live
Part IV: Neoliberal Domestic Workspaces
12 The Electronic Cottage
13 Adaptable Parents, Flexible Jobs and Adaptive Homes
14 Urban Professional Lifestyles
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.07.2020 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 27 b-w, 3 color images |
| Verlagsort | New Brunswick NJ |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Personalwesen | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-9788-0223-4 / 1978802234 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-9788-0223-0 / 9781978802230 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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