From Baby Boom To Baby Bust

Author : Stewart D. Friedman
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1613631332
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baby Bust written by Stewart D. Friedman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new book based on a groundbreaking cross-generational study reveals both greater freedom and new constraints for men and women in their work and family lives.

Author : Jeremy Greenwood
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262350866
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolving Households written by Jeremy Greenwood and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transformative effect of technological change on households and culture, seen from a macroeconomic perspective through simple economic models. In Evolving Households, Jeremy Greenwood argues that technological progress has had as significant an effect on households as it had on industry. Taking a macroeconomic perspective, Greenwood develops simple economic models to study such phenomena as the rise in married female labor force participation, changes in fertility rates, the decline in marriage, and increased longevity. These trends represent a dramatic transformation in everyday life, and they were made possible by advancements in technology. Greenwood also addresses how technological progress can cause social change. Greenwood shows, for example, how electricity and labor-saving appliances freed women from full-time household drudgery and enabled them to enter the labor market. He explains that fertility dropped when higher wages increased the opportunity cost of having children; he attributes the post–World War II baby boom to a combination of labor-saving household technology and advances in obstetrics and pediatrics. Marriage rates declined when single households became more economically feasible; people could be more discriminating in their choice of a mate. Technological progress also affects social and cultural norms. Innovation in contraception ushered in a sexual revolution. Labor-saving technological progress at home, together with mechanization in industry that led to an increase in the value of brain relative to brawn for jobs, fostered the advancement of women's rights in the workplace. Finally, Greenwood attributes increased longevity to advances in medical technology and rising living standards, and he examines healthcare spending, the development of new drugs, and the growing portion of life now spent in retirement.

Author : John Howard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781736282007
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baby Boom Or Bust written by John Howard and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baby Boom or Bust is a mostly chronological, frequently irreverent memoir that crosses six notable decades. Baby boomers were borne of The Silent Generation, a large group of prolific breeders between the baby boomer and Greatest Generation eras. Following World War II, America evolved at seemingly exponential rates in critical areas such as technology, transportation, and infrastructure. The entire kingdom was ultimately handed off to baby boomers whether they were prepared or not. The Silent Generation is most remembered for a strong work ethic and dedication to family, career, and success. Baby boomers were the original slackers, chock full of idealism and rebellion. Almost everything in society changed as they grew up. This story must be told from the twisted perspective of someone who lived through it. Why not me? Someone HAD to write it. This work archives an adventurous, often out-of-the-ordinary childhood in the heartland of America during the 1950s and 1960s, entry into the workforce during the turbulent decade of the 1970s, and ultimately tackles significant (but generally entertaining) career challenges. Boomers like me often risked it all, across the globe and into a new century. Baby boomers are widely known within contexts of what they invented, exploited, or enhanced. It was the generation of sex, drugs and rock & roll. Chapters are segregated into those three general categories, with emphasis on rock & roll. Along the way are colorful and occasionally famous characters, well-known places, and half a century of tawdry escapades. The story is part Forrest Gump and part Private Parts. Many colorful adventures may be unique to the author but are easily relatable to most boomers who grew up during the same decades. That generation turned out to be more pivotal in societal evolution than anyone imagined. A concise, irreverent chronicle of the most important parts of the journey is long overdue.

Author : Jonathan V. Last
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1594037345
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What to Expect When No One's Expecting written by Jonathan V. Last and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2014-06-10 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Look around you and think for a minute: Is America too crowded? For years, we have been warned about the looming danger of overpopulation: people jostling for space on a planet that’s busting at the seams and running out of oil and food and land and everything else. It’s all bunk. The “population bomb” never exploded. Instead, statistics from around the world make clear that since the 1970s, we’ve been facing exactly the opposite problem: people are having too few babies. Population growth has been slowing for two generations. The world’s population will peak, and then begin shrinking, within the next fifty years. In some countries, it’s already started. Japan, for instance, will be half its current size by the end of the century. In Italy, there are already more deaths than births every year. China’s One-Child Policy has left that country without enough women to marry its men, not enough young people to support the country’s elderly, and an impending population contraction that has the ruling class terrified. And all of this is coming to America, too. In fact, it’s already here. Middle-class Americans have their own, informal one-child policy these days. And an alarming number of upscale professionals don’t even go that far—they have dogs, not kids. In fact, if it weren’t for the wave of immigration we experienced over the last thirty years, the United States would be on the verge of shrinking, too. What happened? Everything about modern life—from Bugaboo strollers to insane college tuition to government regulations—has pushed Americans in a single direction, making it harder to have children. And making the people who do still want to have children feel like second-class citizens. What to Expect When No One’s Expecting explains why the population implosion happened and how it is remaking culture, the economy, and politics both at home and around the world. Because if America wants to continue to lead the world, we need to have more babies.

Author : Martin M. Greller
Publisher : Perseus Books
ISBN 13 : 9780201066319
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Baby Boom to Baby Bust written by Martin M. Greller and published by Perseus Books. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Dunn
Publisher : Amer Demographics Books
ISBN 13 : 9780936889214
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The baby bust written by William Dunn and published by Amer Demographics Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first statistical biography of a generation that no marketer will want to be without. Today's teenagers are interested in the environment, good jobs, and good times. They also spend $55 billion of their parents' income on clothes, CDs, sports gear and electronics. Teenage "busters" comprise 17% of the U.S. population--a segment larger than seniors.

Author : Ross Douthat
Publisher : Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476785252
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Decadent Society written by Ross Douthat and published by Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bad Religion, a “clever and stimulating” (The New York Times Book Review) portrait of how our turbulent age is defined by dark forces seemingly beyond our control. The era of the coronavirus has tested America, and our leaders and institutions have conspicuously failed. That failure shouldn’t be surprising: Beneath social-media frenzy and reality-television politics, our era’s deep truths are elite incompetence, cultural exhaustion, and the flight from reality into fantasy. Casting a cold eye on these trends, The Decadent Society explains what happens when a powerful society ceases advancing—how the combination of wealth and technological proficiency with economic stagnation, political stalemate, and demographic decline creates a unique civilizational crisis. Ranging from the futility of our ideological debates to the repetitions of our pop culture, from the decline of sex and childbearing to the escapism of drug use, Ross Douthat argues that our age is defined by disappointment—by the feeling that all the frontiers are closed, that the paths forward lead only to the grave. Correcting both optimism and despair, Douthat provides an enlightening explanation of how we got here, how long our frustrations might last, and how, in renaissance or catastrophe, our decadence might ultimately end.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Population
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 900 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baby boom and bust written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Population and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 900 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Greg Byerly
Publisher : Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Baby Boom written by Greg Byerly and published by Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books. This book was released on 1985 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George W. Grier
Publisher : Washington : Washington Center for Metropolitan Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Baby Bust written by George W. Grier and published by Washington : Washington Center for Metropolitan Studies. This book was released on 1971 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: