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At the Heart of Work and Family
Engaging the Ideas of Arlie Hochschild
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Edited by:
Anita Ilta Garey
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Preface by:
Barbara Ehrenreich
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English
Published/Copyright:
2011
About this book
At the Heart of Work and Family presents original research on work and family by scholars who engage and build on the conceptual framework developed by well-known sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild. These concepts, such as "the second shift," "the economy of gratitude," "emotion work," "feeling rules," "gender strategies," and "the time bind," are basic to sociology and have shaped both popular discussions and academic study. The common thread in these essays covering the gender division of housework, childcare networks, families in the global economy, and children of consumers is the incorporation of emotion, feelings, and meaning into the study of working families. These examinations, like Hochschild's own work, connect micro-level interaction to larger social and economic forces and illustrate the continued relevance of linking economic relations to emotional ones for understanding contemporary work-family life.
Author / Editor information
Anita Ilta Garey is an associate professor of human development and family studies and of sociology at the University of Connecticut. Her book, Weaving Work and Motherhood, received the 2000 William J. Goode Book Award.
Karen V. Hansen is a professor of sociology and women's and gender studies at Brandeis University. Her books include Not-So-Nuclear Families: Class, Gender, and Networks of Care (Rutgers University Press), which received the William J. Goode Book Award, Honorable Mention.
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"In selecting essays for the book, Garey and Hansen illustrate the diversity of research weaving together the contours of gender, work and intimate life, which highlight the complexity of experiences in the 21st century. In doing so, this book becomes a road map for examining the rich terrain of the most vexed policy and social issues of contemporary life."
— Work, Employment, and Society"Garey and Hansen's selection of essays touch upon a rich range of work-family topics. At the Heart of Work and Family is an important contribution to the interdisciplinary field of work and family, and it makes an invaluable contribution to the field of sociology."
— Social Service Review"This collection of articles by many of [Hochschild's] former students and collaborators is a fitting and loving tribute to the life work of one of the most original, influential, and passionate contributors to the discipline of sociology, and much more broadly to the study of emotions, work, family, and human relationships in the global economy."
— Contemporary Sociology"At the Heart of Work and Family brings together scholarship from a wide variety of respected scholars to apply Hochschild’s concepts to explore work and family dynamics. It is engaging, dynamic, conceptually rich, and moves the field of work and family scholarship forward."
— Teachers College Record"At the Heart of Work and Family deftly illustrates Hochschild's path-breaking perspectives, advancing understandings of job/career designs, gendered expectations, and family lives as they intertwine in the new economy."
— Stephen Sweet, author of Changing Contours of WorkTopics
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Foreword
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Editors’ Acknowledgments
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Guide to Topics
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Introduction: An Eye on Emotion in the Study of Families and Work
1 - PART I. Family Time Binds
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Chapter 1. Inside the Clockwork of Male Careers
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Chapter 2. Shift Work in Multiple Time Zones: Some Implications of Contingent and Nonstandard Employment for Family Life
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Chapter 3. Where Families and Children’s Activities Meet: Gender, MESHing Work, and Family Myths
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Chapter 4. Emotional Carework, Gender, and the Division of Household Labor
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Chapter 5. “Why Can’t I Have What I Want?”: Timing Employment, Marriage, and Motherhood
74 - PART II. Work/Family Feeling Rules for Managing the Heart
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6. Framing Couple Time and Togetherness among American and Norwegian Professional Couples
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7. Love and Gratitude: Single Mothers Talk about Men’s Contributions to the Second Shift
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Chapter 8. The Asking Rules of Reciprocity
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Chapter 9. Wives Who Play by the Rules: Working on Emotions in the Sport Marriage
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Chapter 10. Emotion Work in the Age of Insecurity
136 - PART III. Emotional Geography of Invisible Work
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Chapter 11. The Crisis of Care
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Chapter 12. The Family Work of Parenting in Public
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Chapter 13. Maternally Yours: The Emotion Work of “Maternal Visibility”
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Chapter 14. Invisible Care and the Illusion of Independence
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Chapter 15. Remaking Family through Subcontracting Care: Elder Care in Taiwanese and Hong Kong Immigrant Families
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Chapter 16. The Viacom Generation: The Consumer Child and the Corporate Parent
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Chapter 17. Consumption as Care and Belonging: Economies of Dignity in Children’s Daily Lives
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Chapter 18. Interracial Intimacy on the Commodity Frontier
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PART V. Global Care Chains
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Chapter 19. The Globalization-Family Nexus: Families as Mediating Structures of Globalization
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Chapter 20. Homeland Visits: Transnational Magnified Moments among Low-Wage Immigrant Men
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Chapter 21. Childbirth at the Global Crossroads
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Afterword
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Notes on Contributors
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September 23, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9780813550824
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9780813550824
Keywords for this book
emotional labor; gender roles; work-life balance; family dynamics; sociological framework; household responsibilities; emotional economy; gender inequality; caregiving networks; economic pressures; emotional well-being; family relationships; domestic labor; parental roles; emotional intelligence; work stress; childcare arrangements; gender norms; emotional labor division; workplace culture; familial expectations; emotional resilience; household management; emotional support networks; dual-income families; work-family conflict; emotional investments; gender division; economic constraints; emotional expressions; emotional reciprocity; emotional labor theory; gendered expectations; emotional satisfaction; work-life integration; emotional boundaries; familial obligations; emotional fulfillment; economic contributions; emotional investments in family
Audience(s) for this book
For universities and colleges of further and higher education
