We don’t live with the community of yesteryear. And we don’t enjoy the public services Europeans do. So we turn to the market. Once we do, we find that service providers raise the standards of personal life, so that we come to feel we need them to live our ‘best’ personal lives.
Arlie Russell Hochschild Quotes
Could it be, I wonder, that there is such a thing as a wantologist, someone we can hire to figure out what we want? Have I arrived at some final telling moment in my research on outsourcing intimate parts of our lives, or at the absurdist edge of the market frontier?
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| Birth: | 15th January, 1940 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Professor, Writer |
About
Arlie Russell Hochschild 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. The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times was chosen by Publisher's Weekly as one of the "Best Books of 2012." The last chapter was excerpted in The New York Times. Her latest book is So How's the Family? And Other Essays. Hochschild graduated from Swarthmore College, and then earned her M.A. and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, where she later became a professor. Hochschild has won Guggenheim, Fulbright and Mellon fellowships, and three awards granted by the American Sociological Association—the Charles Cooley Award the Jessie Bernard Award, and the Award for Public Understanding of Sociology.
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