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To be at Home - House, Work, and Self in the Modern World (Hardcover)
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To be at Home - House, Work, and Self in the Modern World (Hardcover)
Series: Work in Global and Historical Perspective
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Houses and homes are dynamic spaces within which people work to
organize and secure their lives, livelihoods and relationships.
Written by a team of renowned historians and anthropologists, and
and accompanied by original photography by Maurice Weiss, To Be at
Home: House,Work, and Self in the Modern World compares the ways
people in different societies and historical periods strive to make
and keep houses and homes under conditions of change, upheaval,
displacement, impoverishment and violence. These conditions speak
to the challenges of life in our modern world. The contributors of
this volume position the home as a new nodal point between work,
the self and the world to explore people's creativity, agency and
labour. Houses and homes prove complex and powerful concepts - if
also often elusive - invoking places, persons, objects, emotions,
values, attachments and fantasies. This book demonstrates how the
relations between houses, work and the self have transformed
dramatically and unpredictably under conditions of capitalism and
modernity - and continue to change today.
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