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So How's the Family?: And Other Essays

So How's the Family?: And Other Essays

by Arlie Russell Hochschild (Author)

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Synopsis

In this new collection of thirteen essays, Arlie Russell Hochschild--author of the groundbreaking exploration of emotional labor, The Managed Heart and The Outsourced Self--focuses squarely on the impact of social forces on the emotional side of intimate life. From the work it takes to keep personal life personal, put feeling into work, and empathize with others; to the cultural blur between market and home; the effect of a social class gap on family wellbeing; and the movement of care workers around the globe, Hochschild raises deep questions about the modern age. In an eponymous essay, she even points towards a possible future in which a person asking How's the family? hears the proud answer, Couldn't be better.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 248
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 13 Sep 2013
ISBN 10: 0520272285
ISBN 13: 9780520272286

Media Reviews
Via these brief, compassionate and often amusing summaries, the themes presented here add up to an attempt to predict what the future of commercialisation and globalisation holds for the development of our emotional lives. Book of the Week--Stina Lyon & Karen Shook Times Higher Education (09/05/2013)
When Arlie Russell Hochschild asks, So How's the Family? she's not inquiring about your partner and kids. She has her sights on something bigger: the American family, even the global one. In this collection of essays, the noted Berkeley sociologist, author of The Outsourced Self, delves into ways in which the cultural line between market and home has become increasingly blurred as the social class gap has grown wider. The family, it turns out, is not doing so well worldwide, but Hochschild says there's hope. --Gayle Brandeis San Francisco Chronicle (09/06/2013)
Author Bio
Arlie Hochschild is Professor Emerita of Sociology at UC Berkeley; she is a leading postwar feminist and the author of numerous books, including The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling.