Easy Living: The Rise of the Home Office

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
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: The Consumption of Office Practices and Communication Technology in the Postwar 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 Bachelorettes
	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
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author