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Changing American home life: trends in domestic leisure and storage among middle-class families

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  • Jeanne Arnold
  • Ursula Lang

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This study of middle-class American families draws on ethnography and urban economic history, focusing on patterns of leisure time and household consumption and clutter. We trace how residential life evolved historically from cramped urban quarters into contemporary middle-class residences and examine how busy working families use house spaces. Our ethnographic sample consists of 24 Los Angeles families in which both parents work full time, have young children, and own their homes. Formal datasets include systematically timed family uses of home spaces, a large digital archive of photographs, and family-narrated video home tours. This analysis highlights a salient home-storage crisis, a marked shift in the uses of yards and garages, and the dissolution of outdoor leisure for busy working parents. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2007

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  • Jeanne Arnold & Ursula Lang, 2007. "Changing American home life: trends in domestic leisure and storage among middle-class families," Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Springer, vol. 28(1), pages 23-48, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:jfamec:v:28:y:2007:i:1:p:23-48
    DOI: 10.1007/s10834-006-9052-5
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    1. Inmaculada García & José Molina & María Navarro, 2007. "How Satisfied are Spouses with their Leisure Time? Evidence from Europe," Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Springer, vol. 28(4), pages 546-565, December.
    2. Catherine A. Roster & Joseph R. Ferrari, 2023. "Having less: A personal project taxonomy of consumers' decluttering orientations, motives and emotions," Journal of Consumer Affairs, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 57(1), pages 264-295, January.
    3. Jorge Cruz-Cárdenas & Nora H. Oleas, 2018. "Private Urban Garden Satisfaction and Its Determinants in Quito, Ecuador," SAGE Open, , vol. 8(1), pages 21582440187, March.

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