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Global Woman
Henry Holt and Co. 2004; US$ 17.99In a remarkable pairing, two renowned social critics offer a groundbreaking anthology that examines the unexplored consequences of globalization on the lives of women worldwide Women are moving around the globe as never before. But for every female executive racking up frequent flier miles, there are multitudes of women whose journeys go unnoticed.... more...
The Time Bind
Henry Holt and Co. 2001; US$ 17.99Arlie Russell Hochschild's The Time Bind was a New York Times Notable Book. more...
The Managed Heart
University of California Press 2003; US$ 26.95In private life we try to induce or suppress love, envy, and anger through deep acting or "emotional work," just as we manage our outer expressions through surface acting. But what happens when this system of adjusting emotions is adapted to commercial purposes? Hochschild examines the cost of this kind of "emotional labor." She vividly describes from... more...
The Outsourced Self
Henry Holt and Co. 2012; US$ 16.99From 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 world The 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.... more...
The Managed Heart
University of California Press 2012; US$ 27.95In private life, we try to induce or suppress love, envy, and anger through deep acting or "emotion work," just as we manage our outer expressions of feeling through surface acting. In trying to bridge a gap between what we feel and what we "ought" to feel, we take guidance from "feeling rules" about what is owing to others in a given situation. Based... more...
The Second Shift
Penguin Group US 2012; US$ 12.99An updated edition of a standard in its field that remains relevant more than twenty years after its original publication. More than twenty years ago, sociologist and University of California, Berkeley, professor Arlie Hochschild set off a tidal wave of conversation and controversy with his bestselling book, The Second Shift In it, she examined... more...
Theorizing Emotions
Campus Verlag 2009; US$ 32.34Hauptbeschreibung Theorizing Emotions reflects the recent turn to emotions in academia-not just in sociology but also in psychology, evolutionary biology, and neuroscience. Drawing on the classic studies of Max Weber, Erving Goffman, Norbert Elias, and Theodor Adorno, several leading European scholars present their findings on the role of emotions... more...
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