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Title: The Commercialization of Intimate Life : Notes from Home and Work by Arlie Russell Hochschild ISBN: 0-520-21488-9 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: April, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
Rating: 4
Summary: Wisdom
Comment: Good books on work-family issues give us a window into the mind of the author, describe relevant issues in ways that make sense, and tell us what we can do to improve the world. Great books do all of this, but also give us a glimpse into the author's soul, and leave us rethinking just about everything. Arlie Hochschild's new book, "The Commercialization of Intimate Life," falls into the latter category. That is does so is surprising: the book is a series of essays Arlie wrote over the span of three decades. The key arguments from her most well-known books, The Managed Heart (1983), The Second Shift (1987), and The Time Bind (1997), all show up here, along with a piece on women, work and family in India, and her recent work on immigrant nannies and the children they leave behind in less-developed countries and those they raise in developed countries. The toughest sledding are a couple of pieces that are critical of traditional sociology but help us see the grounding for Arlie's approach, and her relationship to traditional feminist thought as well. That the word "approach" can be used in the singular for all of this work is amazing but accurate: the body of work is all marked by an understanding of work-family conflicts and their heavily gendered resolutions, along with a deep sense of caring about the adults and children involved. The final essay, "The Clockwork of Male Careers," is one of the earliest, and a piece Joan Williams and I rediscovered with joy when working on our recent 'Half-Time Tenure Track' paper for "Change." In the Clockwork piece, Arlie traces the dearth of women in academia to a male model of careers that leaves no room for family, but should. As Arlie notes in an update at the end of the piece, the arguments unfortunately ring just as true now as they did when she originally wrote the piece in 1973. I think that is accurate, but it is also true that far more of us are working today to make things better. A must read!
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Title: Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy by Barbara Ehrenreich, Arlie Russell Hochschild ISBN: 080506995X Publisher: Metropolitan Books Pub. Date: 06 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling by Arlie Russell Hochschild ISBN: 0520054547 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: September, 1985 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work by Arlie Russell Hochschild ISBN: 0805066438 Publisher: Owl Books Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Unequal Childhoods : Class, Race, and Family Life by Annette Lareau ISBN: 0520239504 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Second Shift by Arlie Russell Hochschild, Anne Machung ISBN: 0142002925 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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