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The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home Paperback – 31 January 2012

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An updated edition of a standard in its field that remains relevant more than thirty years after its original publication.

Over thirty years ago, sociologist and University of California, Berkeley professor Arlie Hochschild set off a tidal wave of conversation and controversy with her bestselling book, The Second Shift. Hochschild's examination of life in dual-career housholds finds that, factoring in paid work, child care, and housework, working mothers put in one month of labor more than their spouses do every year. Updated for a workforce that is now half female, this edition cites a range of updated studies and statistics, with an afterword from Hochschild that addresses how far working mothers have come since the book's first publication, and how much farther we all still must go.
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Arlie Russell Hochschild is the author of The Time Bind and most recently Global Woman, which she edited with Barbara Ehrenreich. She is a tenured professor at University of California, Berkeley.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin; 1st edition (31 January 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0143120336
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0143120339
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 1.78 x 12.7 x 19.56 cm
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Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, now available in paperback from The New Press, addresses the increasingly bitter political divide in America. A finalist for the National Book Award, and New York Times Best Seller, the book is based on five years of immersion reporting among Tea Party loyalists -- now mostly supporters of Donald Trump. Hochschild tries to bridge an “empathy wall” between the two political sides, to explore the “deep story” underlying the right that remains unrecognized by the left. Mark Danner calls the book “a powerful, imaginative, necessary book, arriving not a moment too soon." Robert Reich writes” Anyone who wants to understand modern America should read this captivating book." In its review, Publisher’s Weekly notes: “After evaluating her conclusions and meeting her informants in these pages, it’s hard to disagree that empathy is the best solution to stymied political and social discourse.”

Her 2012 The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times, explores the many ways in which the market enters our modern lives and was named one of the best books of the year by Publishers Weekly. Her other books include: So How’s the Family?, The Managed Heart, The Second Shift, The Time Bind, The Commercialization of Intimate Life, The Unexpected Community and the co-edited Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy. In reviewing The Second Shift (reissued in 2012 with a new afterword) Robert Kuttner noted Hochschild’s “subtlety of insights” and “graceful seamless narrative” and called it the “best discussion I have read of what must be the quintessential domestic bind of our time.” Newsweek’s Laura Shapiro described The Time Bind as “groundbreaking.” In awarding Hochschild the Jesse Bernard Award, the American Sociological Association citation observed her “creative genius for framing questions and lines of insight, often condensed into memorable, paradigm-shifting words and phrases.” A retired U.C. Berkeley professor of sociology, she lives with her husband, the writer Adam Hochschild in Berkeley, California.

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Juliana
5.0 out of 5 stars Fundamental
Reviewed in Brazil on 16 March 2020
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Fundamental para compreender a teoria do Care.
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Jessica Taylor
5.0 out of 5 stars Best Book Ever about Why Mommy Drinks
Reviewed in the United States on 5 September 2013
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I've bought ten copies of this book and sent them to friends from CT to CA. I was impressed with how the authors didn't bash men but presented the facts without judgement. The facts being: women have traditionally handled the equivalent of an 8-12 hr/day job at home that consisted of meal preparation, childcare, laundry, bill paying, gift purchasing, holiday and event planning, dental/medical maintenance for the family etc. Now that they work, the question must be addressed - who will handle that full time job at home ?

Until we shine a light on this question we can't expect men to intuitively KNOW it needs to be addressed since they've never done the work to begin with (plus, let's be real, how many of us RUN after more work?). Many women just do the work until they get sick from exhaustion- so the conversations aren't even happening, or they have happened and failed. I sent this book to friends with daughters and more importantly with sons, because we have a chance as mothers to raise men willing to share the work and to raise women who will not settle for anything less than an equal partner.

They also highlighted issues with 2 job families that our society needs a solution for, e.g. until there is adequate and affordable childcare women are taking lower paying flexible jobs to deal with half-day school schedules. If every parent works, how could a school arbitrarily close for a half day ? And why would we hobble 50% of our workers so they could not achieve their full potential when the resulting taxes they would have paid could help to support our economy? Yet my friends from NM to NY to CA complain about school schedules not matching work hours and having to compromise their careers.

An excellent read that prompted many productive conversations.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 November 2014
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Great book excellent for my foundation degree in working with children and young people enlightening
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Branwen Angharad
4.0 out of 5 stars Amazing book
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Slight damage on the cover when it arrived and some pages folded but fantastic contents
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Ned
5.0 out of 5 stars and lucky for me I thoroughly enjoyed this book
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Let me start with the truth: I don't read much. It was required reading for a sociology course I took, and lucky for me I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I loved the perspective, how it calls out the truth of what many couples deal with in their day-to-day lives and how it identifies sources of tension in partnerships that those involved aren't always privy to. It makes it very easy to then look at your own life and open really healthy and potentially relationship-saving dialogue about what you and your partner are dealing with and need to address to make life better for both people. It definitely helped relieve some stress for me by helping me find the words about my own expectations and also seeing that I'm not the only one who experiences some cognitive dissonance about what I say I want, what I want deep down, what I've actually communicated (or haven't) about those expectations, and how it's all playing out.
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