EVERYDAY REVOLUTIONARIES
Working Women and the Transformation of American Life
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Published: January, 1998
ISBN: 0385480253
In this book, Sally shows how women’s participation in the workforce is changing organizations, families, and communities.
In Everyday Revolutionaries, she does so by holding up a magnifying glass to working women’s lives in Naperville, Illinois. Sally chose Naperville in part because it offered a counterpart to nearby Park Forest, depicted in William Whyte’s 1956 classic The Organization Man.
Everyday Revolutionaries identifies five major trends reshaping how we work and live. All have been heavily influenced by women’s participation in the workforce.
These trends include:
- The breakdown of long-standing barriers between work and home, public and private, men and women
- Increasing customization in every aspect of our lives
- The end of generic life cycles
- The integration of learning and work
- Transformed approaches to retirement
The stories in Everyday Revolutionaries offer a wealth of innovative ideas for women seeking to balance their careers and their families. And to build communities that support satisfying, sustainable, and rewarding lives.
Praise for Everyday Revolutionaries
“The best account I’ve read about what’s going on in today’s edge cities and suburbs. Sally Helgesen lucidly and persuasively links her down-to-earth observations with complex social, economic, political and religious changes transforming American life for both adults and children.”
— Jane Jacobs, author, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Cities and the Wealth of Nations
“As profound as Studs Terkel’s Working, Everyday Revolutionaries is a book of surpassing importance. It’s a fabulous read as well.”
— Tom Peters, author, In Search of Excellence, The Excellence Dividend
“Sally has done it again. In this carefully researched study of women and the rollicking new world of work, she renders obsolete stodgy old models of corporate life. As radical social change rolls on, Sally convincingly shows how contemporary women are the real movers and shakers in a fluid society, improvising in every corner of their busy lives and changing our culture in the process.”
— Nancy K Austin, co-author, A Passion for Excellence