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ELSEWHERE, U.S.A.
ELSEWHERE, U.S.A.
Subtitle:
How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety
Book Category:
History > North America
Author:
Conley, Dalton
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN 13:
9780375422904
Price:
USD 24.00
Publication Year:
2009

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In Elsewhere, U.S.A., Conley connects our daily experience with occasionally overlooked sociological changes: women’s increasing participation in the labor force; rising economic inequality generating anxiety among successful professionals; the individualism of the modern era–the belief in self-actualization and expression–being replaced by the need to play different roles in the various realms of one’s existence.

 

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