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

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Macmillan, May 15, 1997 - Business & Economics - 316 pages
In her remarkable new book, the author of "The Second Shift" brings readers startling news of the ways in which home is being invaded by the time pressures and efficiencies of work, while the workplace is, for many parents, being transformed into a strange kind of surrogate home.

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Contents

PART II From Executive Suite to Factory Floor
53
PART III Implications and Alternatives
195
Appendix
260
Endnotes
268

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About the author (1997)

Arlie Russell Hochschild, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of two New York Times Notable Books of the Year, THE SECOND SHIFT and THE MANAGED HEART. She has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a research grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. Her articles have appeared in Harper's, Mother Jones, and Psychology Today, among others. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, the writer Adam Hochschild.

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