Pursuing quality of life : from the affluent society to the consumer society
From anxieties over work-life balance and entangling technologies, to celebrations of cool jobs and great places to live, quality of life frames the ways we enhance our lives and legitimate social change today. But how does the idea of quality of life envision the greater good, and what gets lost as...
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New York :
Routledge ,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Conceptual tensions
- 2. Intellectual history
- 3. Technology
- 4. Family
- 5. Work
- 6. Place
- 7. Politics
- 8. Futures