On the 100th Birthday of Our House: The Past and Future of Housing in the U.S.
...oing grocery shopping, while dishes or clothes are machine washed). In the book, The Overworked American, 1991, Juliet Schor suggests that “U.S. employees currently work 320 more hours–the equivalent of over 2 months–than their counter-parts in West Germany or France.” This American lifestyle demands convenience, and that demand is exercised both inside and outside the household. So the differences between our 1920s bungalow and the average U.S. h...