Busier than ever! : why American families can't slow down / Charles N. Darrah, James M. Freeman, and J.A. English-Lueck.

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Darrah, Charles N

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TextPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.Description: 1 online resource (288 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781435608931
1435608933
0804768188
9780804768184

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Busier than ever!.DDC classification:

306.872 22

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HQ536 .D324 2007eb

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71.21

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Contents:

Busyness -- A journey through busyness -- How are we busy? -- Why are we busy? -- Coping -- The hidden work of thinking ahead -- Making manageable worlds -- When things go wrong -- Building buffers -- Using things -- Connecting people -- Remaking family -- Continuing concerns -- Why it's so hard to say no -- Acknowledgments -- List of families -- Notes -- Works cited -- Family index -- Subject index.

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Summary: Busyness defines the lives of most Americans. For some, the focus of busyness is family. For others, it is career or social activities. Sometimes busyness results from a big event, like the catastrophic illness of a family member, but much of it builds from many seemingly inconsequential demands that collectively become overwhelming. We search for the best airline prices on the Internet, are "partners" with teachers in our children's education, and employ a battery of devices that promise to save labor if only we can learn how to use them.Summary: Busier Than Ever! follows the daily activities of fourteen American families. It explores why they are busy and what the consequences are for their lives. Busyness is not just a matter of personal time management, but of the activities we participate in and how each of us creates "the good life." While numerous books deal with efficiency and the difficulties of balancing work and family, Busier Than Ever! offers a fresh approach. Busyness is not a "problem" to be solved--it is who we are as Americans and it's redefining American families

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-284) and indexes.

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Busyness defines the lives of most Americans. For some, the focus of busyness is family. For others, it is career or social activities. Sometimes busyness results from a big event, like the catastrophic illness of a family member, but much of it builds from many seemingly inconsequential demands that collectively become overwhelming. We search for the best airline prices on the Internet, are "partners" with teachers in our children's education, and employ a battery of devices that promise to save labor if only we can learn how to use them.

Busier Than Ever! follows the daily activities of fourteen American families. It explores why they are busy and what the consequences are for their lives. Busyness is not just a matter of personal time management, but of the activities we participate in and how each of us creates "the good life." While numerous books deal with efficiency and the difficulties of balancing work and family, Busier Than Ever! offers a fresh approach. Busyness is not a "problem" to be solved--it is who we are as Americans and it's redefining American families

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