false 6390632 1 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?<br><br>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.<br><br>“This brilliant new book makes sense of how changes in the ways people work are affecting the ways families work. Conley writes with the grace of a novelist and the insight of a rigorous scholar.” – Richard Sennett, author of The Craftsman 6579039 13 1 2009 Elsewhere, U.S.A.: How We Got From the Company Man, Family Dinner and the Age of Affluence to the Home Office, Blackberry Moms and Economic Anxiety total:1|1:1| 1 1 1 1 6390632 1423377648 9781423377641 1 1 1.00 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6390632-elsewhere-u-s-a 1 0 false Thu Jul 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 06:00:09 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 13:19:04 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6390632