ABSTRACT

The Internet, cell phones, and other technologies have changed the ways in which people conduct their family lives, raise children, and navigate the blurry boundary between work and home. Private life is colonized by employers, teachers, corporations; family time is taken up by work, homework, and shopping. What it means to be parents and children has changed dramatically. This book shows how the nurturance of family has increasingly become a willful, radical idea in an era of pervasive technology. The authors analyze important trends, including the acceleration and attenuation of childhood, and offer a children s bill of rights and accompanying parental responsibilities."

chapter 1|41 pages

Mapping Families in Fast Capitalism

chapter 2|30 pages

Implosion I

The Work/Family Boundary

chapter 3|24 pages

Implosion II

Accelerated Childhood

chapter 4|28 pages

Home/School

Toward a Rote Culture

chapter 5|25 pages

Class in Class

Capital, Human Capital, Cultural Capital

chapter 6|25 pages

Children of Parents, Children of Democracy