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How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety
Pantheon
January 2009
On Sale: January 13, 2009
240 pages
ISBN: 0375422900
EAN: 9780375422904
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Over the past three decades, our daily lives have changed
slowly but dramatically. Boundaries between leisure and
work, public space and private space, and home and office
have blurred and become permeable. How many of us now work
from home, our wireless economy allowing and encouraging us
to work 24/7? How many of us talk to our children while
scrolling through e-mails on our BlackBerrys? How many of
us feel overextended, as we are challenged to play multiple
roles–worker, boss, parent, spouse, friend, and client–all
in the same instant? Dalton Conley, social scientist and writer provides us with
an X-ray view of our new social reality. 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. In this groundbreaking book, Conley
offers an essential understanding of how the technological,
social, and economic changes that have reshaped our world
are also reshaping our individual lives.
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