false 55781417 1309558 3928603 0375422900 9780375422904 26 <![CDATA[Elsewhere, U.S.A.: How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1226976621m/3928603.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1226976621s/3928603.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3928603.Elsewhere_U_S_A_How_We_Got_from_the_Company_Man_Family_Dinners_and_the_Affluent_Society_to_the_Home_Office_BlackBerry_Moms_and_Economic_Anxiety 3.21 84 Elsewhere, U.S.A., Conley connects our daily experience with relatively invisible 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-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 technologic, social, and economic changes that have reshaped our world are also reshaping our individual lives.]]> 9156 3.57 552 91 2009 1 0 false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 06:13:43 -0700 2009 Tue May 12 06:14:01 -0700 2009