Pursuing quality of life : from the affluent society to the consumer society / / Leonard Nevarez
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| Autore: |
Nevarez Leonard
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| Titolo: |
Pursuing quality of life : from the affluent society to the consumer society / / Leonard Nevarez
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306 |
| Soggetto topico: | Quality of life |
| Consumption (Economics) | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Conceptual origins -- Intellectual history -- Technology -- Family -- Work -- Place -- Politics -- Futures. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 a result? This book provides the critical framework for understanding the idea's contexts and tensions that are conspicuously missing in popular discussions, professional activities, and scholarly research on quality of life. With multiple case studies taken across North America and Europ |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Pursuing quality of life |
| ISBN: | 1-136-81747-6 |
| 1-283-04022-0 | |
| 9786613040220 | |
| 0-203-82974-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910458978303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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