Outsourced Self by Hochschild, Arlie Russell
Outsourced Self by Hochschild, Arlie Russell

Outsourced Self

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year From the famed author of the bestselling The Second...
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Author: Arlie Russell Hochschild
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Outsourced Self by Hochschild, Arlie Russell

Outsourced Self

$225.49
Outsourced Self by Hochschild, Arlie Russell

Outsourced Self

$225.49
Author: Arlie Russell Hochschild
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year

From 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. 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. From dating services that train you to be the CEO of your love life to wedding planners who create a couple's personal narrative; from nameologists (who help you name your child) to wantologists (who help you name your goals); from commercial surrogate farms in India to hired mourners who will scatter your loved one's ashes in the ocean of your choice--Hochschild reveals a world in which the most intuitive and emotional of human acts have become work for hire.

Sharp and clear-eyed, Hochschild is full of sympathy for overstressed, outsourcing Americans, even as she warns of the market's threat to the personal realm they are striving so hard to preserve.

Author: Arlie Russell Hochschild
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 04/02/2013
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.55w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9781250024190


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 05/12/2013 pg. 40

About the Author
Arlie Russell Hochschild is the author of The Time Bind, The Second Shift, and The Managed Heart. She is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her articles have appeared in Harper's, Mother Jones, and Psychology Today, among others. She lives in San Francisco.


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