The new better off : reinventing the American dream

Summary: "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"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781580055796
ISBN: 1580055796
Physical Description: print
286 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: Berkeley, California : Seal Press, [2016]

Content descriptions

General Note:	Includes discussion guide (pages 285-286).
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-283).
Formatted Contents Note:	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.