A finalist for the National Book award this year, by the way, just announced. Congratulations. Other books include working parents and the revolution at home, the time bind, when home becomes work and work becomes home, and the managed heart the commercialization of the intimate life. Shes been awarded the ulysses medal from university collegedublin, ireland, wells the guggenheimmellon fellowship. Four of her books have been named notable Nonfiction Book of the year by the new york times, and her work appears in 16 languages. Shes a sociology professor emerita at ucberkeley. She lives in california with her husband, adam. Welcome, arlie. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. [applause] its great to be here. What i thought we could do is ill spend a little bit of time taking you on a journey with me that ive just come home from. And then we can open it up to questions and comments. Five years ago i sensed, like so many of us did, a split between left and right that was getting more
Floor to questions so without further ado one thing i want to mention, a lot of people tend to conflate all families with chronically Homeless Individuals and they are two populations with different sets of needs so you might bear that in mind. The introduction to my book is called the family room, a place to sleep. For most of us it is a given in our lives along with a roof over our heads and our own front door to close, ever since the beginning of the european colonization of north america jamestown in 1607 and the mayflower pilgrims Plymouth Colony in 1620, communities on the source have had to deal with those among them who did not have a place to sleep, people who could not provide for themselves or their children and had no one to give them shelter. Despite the fact the new world offered any ablebodied person an abundance of seafood and fertile soil life was not easy. Disease, war and accidents were constantly leaving families to fend for themselves. A woman could be widowed in t
In the 1970 census, those living abroad, and today all time high of 20 . Thats part of what happened to to our country. A finalist for the National Book award this year, by the way, just announced. Congratulations. Other books include working parents and the revolution at home, the time bind, when home becomes work and work becomes home, and the managed heart the commercial of a the intimate life. She has been awarded therd ulysses metal from University College Dublin Ireland as well as the guggenheim fellowship. Four per books have been named a National New York times notable nonfictionme books of the year in her work appears in 16 languages as a sociology professor at ucberkeley living in berkeley california with her husband. Use] [applause] when i thought we could do is spend a little bit of time to take you on a journey with me questions and comments. Five years ago i sensed, like so many of us did, a split between left and right that was getting more extreme. Each side was hardeni
Would also turn out to be true and not because of some historical accident, but because our Economic System was intentionally rigged in favor of corporations and wealthy americans over everyone else. Trickle down economics was woven into the National Conversation consciousness as if it were written into the founding documents of our country. Two hundred years of struggle and progress had been intentionally reversed over the course of the last 30 years. If a foreign power had announced that was its plan for america, we would have gone to war. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. [inaudible conversations] and were back live in nashville, and heres author Richard Schweid live from the southern festival of books. [inaudible conversations] thank you all very much for coming. Thanks, of course, to the southern festival of books. Open the floor to questions so without further ado one thing i want to mention, a lot of people tend to conflate all families with chronicall