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Easy Living : The Rise of the Home Office /
"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 magazine...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick :
Rutgers University Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- 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: The Consumption of Office Practices and Communication Technology in the Postwar 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 Bachelorettes
- 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
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author