More Than Pretty Boxes: How the Rise of Professional Organizing Shows Us the Way We Work Isn't Working - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226832777ISBN-10:226832775UPC:9780226832777Book Category:Social Science, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Women's Studies, Sociology, Human Resources & Personnel ManagementBook Topic:Social TheorySize:8.70 x 5.90 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SC78DBC771
More Than Pretty Boxes: How the Rise of Professional Organizing Shows Us the Way We Work Isn't Working
This study of organizing and decluttering professionals helps us understand--and perhaps alleviate--the overwhelming demands society places on our time and energy. For a widely dreaded, often mundane task, organizing one's possessions has taken a surprising hold on our cultural imagination. Today, those with the means can hire professionals to help sort and declutter their homes. In More Than...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226832777ISBN-10:226832775UPC:9780226832777Book Category:Social Science, Business & EconomicsBook Subcategory:Women's Studies, Sociology, Human Resources & Personnel ManagementBook Topic:Social TheorySize:8.70 x 5.90 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SC78DBC771
Carrie M. Lane is professor of American Studies at California State University, Fullerton. For more than two decades, she has conducted ethnographic and historical research on the changing nature of work in contemporary America. She is the author of the award-winning book A Company of One: Insecurity, Independence, and the New World of White-Collar Unemployment and coeditor of Anthropologies of...
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