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The outsourced self : intimate life in market times / Arlie Russell Hochschild.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hochschild, Arlie Russell, 1940-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--Economic aspects--United States--History.
- Families.
- Interpersonal relations and culture--United States--History.
- Interpersonal relations and culture.
- History.
- Families--Economic aspects.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 300 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Metropolitan Books, 2012.
- Summary:
- Drawing on hundreds of interviews and original research, Hochschild follows the incursions of the market into every stage of intimate life and reveals a world in which the most intuitive and emotional of human acts have become work for hire.
- Contents:
- You have three seconds
- The legend of the lemon tree
- For as long as we both shall live
- Our baby, her womb
- My womb, their baby
- It takes a service mall
- Making six-year-olds laugh is harder than you think
- A high score in family memory creation
- Importing family values
- I was invisible to myself
- Nolan enjoys my father for me
- With a person you pay you can be needy
- I would have done it if she'd been my mother
- Endings.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780805088892
- 080508889X
- OCLC:
- 740628925
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