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The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work
The Time Bind When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work
Author: Arlie Russell Hochschild
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780805044706
ISBN-10: 0805044701
Publication Date: 5/15/1997
Pages: 316
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Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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n 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.


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