First published 1997
In a Fortune 500 company, Arlie Hochschild discovers a shocking reversal: home is now invaded by the time pressures of work, while the workplace has become a strange surrogate home. Through vivid portraits, she reveals a crunch-time world where couples are time thieves, children are emotional bill-collectors, and women flee the pressures of home for the relief of work. Hochschild's groundbreaking study exposes the damage of this blurred work-life divide, and the third, hardest shift required to repair it.
Genres: family-life, business, sociology, non-fiction, 21st-century, workplace
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: investigative-journalism, social-commentary
Setting: United States, États-Unis, EE.UU
Period: 21st-century
336 pages · Hardcover · Metropolitan Books