At the Heart of Work and Family: Engaging the Ideas of Arlie Hochschild

by Anita Ilta Garey, Karen V. Hansen, Barbara Ehrenreich

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813549569
Publisher:	Rutgers University Press
Publication date:	02/01/2011
Series:	Families in Focus
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword Barbara Ehrenreich xi

Editors' Acknowledgments xiii

Guide to Topics xv

Introduction: An Eye on Emotion in the Study of Families and Work Anita Ilta Garey Karen V. Hansen 1

Part I Family Time Binds

1 Inside the Clockwork of Male Careers Arlie Russell Hochschild 17

2 Shift Work in Multiple Time Zones: Some Implications of Contingent and Nonstandard Employment for Family Life Vicki Smith 30

3 Where Families and Children's Activities Meet: Gender, MESHing Work, and Family Myths Patricia Berhau Annette Lareau Julie E. Press 43

4 Emotional Carework, Gender, and the Division of Household Labor Rebecca J. Erickson 61

5 "Why Can't I Have What I Want?": Timing Employment, Marriage, and Motherhood Rosanna Hertz 74

Part II Work/Family Feeling Rules for Managing the Heart

6 Framing Couple Time and Togetherness among American and Norwegian Professional Couples Jeremy Schulz 85

7 Love and Gratitude: Single Mothers Talk about Men's Contributions to the Second Shift Margaret K. Nelson 100

8 The Asking Rules of Reciprocity Karen V. Hansen 112

9 Wives Who Play by the Rules: Working on Emotions in the Sport Marriage Steven M. Ortiz 124

10 Emotion Work in the Age of Insecurity Marianne Cooper 136

Part III Emotional Geography of Invisible Work

11 The Crisis of Care Barrie Thorne 149

12 The Family Work of Parenting in Public Marjorie L. DeVault 161

13 Maternally Yours: The Emotion Work of "Maternal Visibility" Anita Ilta Garey 171

14 Invisible Care and the Illusion of Independence Lynn May Rivas 180

Part IV Commodifying Intimate Life

15 Remaking Family through Subcontracting Care: Elder Care in Taiwanese and Hong Kong Immigrant Families Pei-Chia Lan 193

16 The Viacom Generation: The Consumer Child and the Corporate Parent Juliet B. Schor 206

17 Consumption as Care and Belonging: Economies of Dignity in Children's Daily Lives Allison J. Pugh 217

18 Interracial Intimacy on the Commodity Frontier Kimberly McClain DaCosta 228

Part V Global Care Chains

19 The Globalization-Family Nexus: Families as Mediating Structures of Globalization Nazli Kibria 243

20 Homeland Visits: Transnational Magnified Moments among Low-Wage Immigrant Men Hung Cam Thai 250

21 Childbirth at the Global Crossroads Arlie Russell Hochschild 262

Afterword Arlie Russell Hochschild 269

Notes on Contributors 273

Editorial Reviews

"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

"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

"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

"Garey and Hansen have assembled a stunning collection of studies on the emotional and logistical dynamics of coordinating paid and unpaid work. A must read."

author of A Strange Stirring - Stephanie Coontz

"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 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."

author of Changing Contours of Work - Stephen Sweet

"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

"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."

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