ABSTRACT
The author argues that the changes to home-life brought about by technological development during the industrial period have continued in the post-industrial era to the point where the consumption of the average suburban home today is unsustainable both for economic and ecological reasons. He then argues that a wholesale rehabilitation of homemaking requires a cultural shift in worldviews. One thing shared in common with the global-ecological, domestic-economic and personal-psychological arguments on the desirability of lessening our dependence on the business as usual economy by working less hours and devoting ourselves to self-provisioning for our basic needs is the inescapable fact that we will be less affluent. Schor sees the need for frugality and devotion to self-provisioning or homemaking as an interim and necessary expedient during a time of transition while we wean ourselves from the dirty business as usual economy and move to a green economy where new green technologies will open up new markets.
