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Easy Living: The Rise of the Home Office de Elizabeth A Patton

Easy Living: The Rise of the Home Office

Autor Elizabeth A Patton
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 iul 2020 – vârsta ani
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781978802230
ISBN-10: 1978802234
Pagini: 216
Ilustrații: 27 b-w, 3 color images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press

Notă biografică

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.

Cuprins

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
 

Recenzii

“This easy to read, fun, and unique book approaches discourses on work/life in a way that no one has before.”

"Patton draws on an impressive array of archival sources to demonstrate how communication technologies and architectural design have constructed ideals about working at home. Her nuanced historical analysis importantly reveals that our contemporary struggles over work/life balance are not new."


"Easy Living: The Rise of the Home Office [is] a piece of engaging and prescient scholarship which, especially at the present moment, makes a valuable contribution to now central and ongoing global debates about what working from home has meant, means now, and might mean in the future."

"Easy Living sheds necessary light on the practice of working from home. It is also (and seemingly unintentionally) timely: as societies negotiate an exit from the pandemic emergency and attempt to move towards some form of the new normal, choices about whether to continue working from home or to return to the office are being made on both corporate and individual levels." 

"Easy Living offers a strong critique of the contemporary myth of work-life balance, a myth that 'keeps workers from recognizing the exploitation of their labor and the dependence on service workers to support work-life balance'....Although written before the onslaught of Covid-19, Easy Living exposes the long-standing discourses of gender, race, and class undergirding American experiences of work and home, discourses laden with power and inequality that the pandemic has exposed."

Descriere

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.