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Martin, Courtney E., author.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
United States -- Civilization -- 21st century.
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The new better off :...
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The new better off : reinventing the American dream / Courtney E. Martin.
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Martin, Courtney E., author.
Berkeley, California : Seal Press, c2016.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
United States -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
United States -- Civilization -- 21st century.
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9781580055796 :
1580055796
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286 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
How do you want to be?: thinking differently about vocation -- Working alone, together: flexibility and friendship in a freelance era -- Norma Rae for a new century: how labor, power, and care are being remade -- The wisdom of enough: making sound financial decisions in a culture that overvalues money -- Fighting to be whole: how men and falling in love with fathering -- Harnessing the wind: directing attention where it matters most in an age of distraction -- The end of "mine": how our relationship to ownership is changing -- Tearing down the white picket fence: reclaiming community -- Regrowing our roots: the power and complexity of investing in local community -- Ritual remixed: making meaning and marking moments amidst the chaos of modern life -- The thread of revelation: creating communities that help us ask the hard questions.
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"Are we living the good life--and what defines 'good', anyway? Americans today are constructing a completely different framework for success than their parents' generation, using new metrics that TED speaker and columnist Courtney Martin has termed collectively the "New Better Off"--
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