Easy Living traces changing concepts about what it meant to work in the home through the analysis of national magazines and newspapers, television and film, and marketing and advertising materials from the housing, telecommunications, and office technology industries. These ideas reflected larger social, political-economic, and technological trends of the times.
Easy Living traces changing concepts about what it meant to work in the home through the analysis of national magazines and newspapers, television and film, and marketing and advertising materials from the housing, telecommunications, and office technology industries. These ideas reflected larger social, political-economic, and technological trends of the times.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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.
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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
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
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