Easy Living : : The Rise of the Home Office / / Elizabeth A Patton.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) :; 27 b-w, 3 color images |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- Part 1. 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 2. 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 3. THE BIRTH OF THE LIVE-WORK LIFESTYLE
- 9. REAL MEN LIVE IN THE CITY
- 10. PSEUDO-BOHEMIAN BACHELORETTES
- 11. WORK WHERE YOU LIVE
- Part 4. NEOLIBERAL DOMESTIC WORKSPACES
- 13. ADAPTABLE PARENTS, FLEXIBLE JOBS, AND ADAPTIVE HOMES
- 14. URBAN PROFESSIONAL LIFESTYLES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR