The new better off
Subtitle: reinventing the American dream
By: Courtney E. Martin
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781580055796
Subjects: Social conditions; Civilization; Economic conditions
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-283).
Table of contents: title: How do you want to be?: thinking differently about vocation; title: Working alone, together: flexibility and friendship in a freelance era; title: Norma Rae for a new century: how labor, power, and care are being remade; title: The wisdom of enough: making sound financial decisions in a culture that overvalues money; title: Fighting to be whole: how men and falling in love with fathering; title: Harnessing the wind: directing attention where it matters most in an age of distraction; title: The end of "mine": how our relationship to ownership is changing; title: Tearing down the white picket fence: reclaiming community; title: Regrowing our roots: the power and complexity of investing in local community; title: Ritual remixed: making meaning and marking moments amidst the chaos of modern life; title: The thread of revelation: creating communities that help us ask the hard questions.