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The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work Book

In the early 1990s Arlie Hochschild exposed The Second Shift, revealing the housework and childcare inequities of working couples. In this book Hochschild exposes the disturbing time bind of American families: parents are putting more hours in at work to support their families, which creates more stress at home, which pushes parents into seeking more work time to escape the tension at home. The result of this time crunch is the unsettling development of the "third shift"--the time parents spend repairing the damage left in the wake of their compulsion to work. Hochschild's solution? Parents of America unite! The final chapters discuss how parents can start a "Time Movement," liberating themselves from work-driven tyranny. Read More

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    Over a period of three years, Hochschild studied the daily life of working parents inside a Fortune 500 company she calls Amerco. She asks employees "where do you feel appreciated? Where do you feel competent? Where do you feel relaxed?" More often than she expected, the answer came back "at work." From top managers to assembly line workers, the competition between home and work played out in different ways. In addition to paying others to care for the family or doing with less care, one way parents managed the tension between the long hours they work and the time they wanted to give at home, she notes, is by imagining a "potential self" - the self one "would be" if only one had time. The book ends by calling for a movement for a shorter workweek.

  • 0805044701
  • 9780805044706
  • Arlie Russell Hochschild
  • 1 May 1997
  • Henry Holt & Company Inc
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 336
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