The Commercialization of Intimate Life: Notes from Home and Work

The Commercialization of Intimate Life: Notes from Home and Work ebook

Through a series of magnified moments in people's lives, Hochschild explores the impact of modern capitalism on our experience of care and love.

Arlie Russell Hochschild is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. She is author of The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work (1997), The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home (1989), and The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling (California, 1983), all cited as Notable Books of the Year by the New York Times. She is also author of The Unexpected Community (California, 1973), and she has received the American Sociological Association Award for Public Understanding of Sociology.

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