Arlie Russell Hochschild


Arlie Russell Hochschild (born January 15, 1940) is a professor emerita of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include: The Managed Heart, The Second Shift, The Time Bind, The Commercialization of Intimate Life and the co-edited Global Woman: nannies, maids and sex workers in the new economy. Her latest book is The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Timeschosen by Publisher’s Weekly as one of the “Best Books of 2012." This was both excerpted - The Outsourced Life - and reviewed in The New York Times. In awarding Hochschild the Jesse Bernard Award, the American Sociological Association citation observed her “creative genius for framing questions and lines of insight, often condensed into memorable, paradigm-shifting words and phrases.”

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