The Outsourced Self: What Happens When We Pay Others to Live Our Lives for Us Hochschild Arlie RussellPaperback
The Outsourced Self: What Happens When We Pay Others to Live Our Lives for Us Hochschild Arlie RussellPaperback A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearFrom the famed author of the bestselling The…
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The Outsourced Self: What Happens When We Pay Others to Live Our Lives for Us Hochschild Arlie RussellPaperback
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearFrom the famed author of the bestselling The Second Shift and The Time Bind, a pathbreaking look at the transformation of private life in our for-profit worldThe family has long been a haven in a heartless world, the one place immune to market forces and economic calculations, where the personal, the private, and the emotional hold sway. From dating services that train you to be Yet as Arlie Russell Hochschild shows in The Outsourced Self, that is no longer the case: everything that was once part of private life--love, friendship, child rearing--is being transformed into packaged expertise to be sold back to confused, harried Americans.Drawing on hundreds of interviews and original research, Hochschild follows the incursions of the market into every stage of intimate life.