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Book Synopsis
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.

Trade Review
"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 *
"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, Employment, and Society *
"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." -- Stephanie Coontz * author of A Strange Stirring *
"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." -- Stephen Sweet * author of Changing Contours of Work *
"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 *
"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 *
"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 *
"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, Employment, and Society *
"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." -- Stephanie Coontz * author of A Strange Stirring *
"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." -- Stephen Sweet * author of Changing Contours of Work *
"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 *
"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 *

Table of Contents
Inside the clockwork of male careers / Arlie Russell Hochschild
Shift work in multiple time zones : some implications of contingent and nonstandard employment for family life / Vicki Smith
Where families and children's activities meet : gender, meshing work, and family myths / Patricia Berhau, Annette Lareau, and Julie E. Press
Emotional carework, gender, and the division of household labor / Rebecca J. Erickson
Why can't I have what I want? Timing employment, marriage, and motherhood / Rosanna Hertz
Framing couple time and togetherness among American and Norwegian professional couples / Jeremy Schulz
Love and gratitude : single mothers talk about men's contributions to the second shift / Margaret K. Nelson
The asking rules of reciprocity / Karen V. Hansen
Wives who play by the rules : working on emotions in the sport marriage / Steven M. Ortiz
Emotion work in the age of insecurity / Marianne Cooper
The crisis of care / Barrie Thorne
The family work of parenting in public / Marjorie L. DeVault
Maternally yours : the emotion work of maternal visibility / Anita Ilta Garey
Invisible care and the illusion of independence / Lynn May Rivas
Remaking family through subcontracting care : elder care in Taiwanese and Hong Kong immigrant families / Pei-Chia Lan
The Viacom generation : the consumer child and the corporate parent / Juliet B. Schor
Consumption as care and belonging : economies of dignity in children's daily lives / Allison J. Pugh
Interracial intimacy on the commodity frontier / Kimberly McClain DaCosta
The globalization-family nexus : families as mediating structures of globalization / Nazli Kibria
Homeland visits : transnational magnified moments among low-wage immigrant men / Hung Cam Thai
Childbirth at the global crossroads / Arlie Russell Hochschild

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      Publisher: Rutgers University Press
      Publication Date: 01/02/2011
      ISBN13: 9780813549569, 978-0813549569
      ISBN10: 0813549566

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      "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 *
      "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, Employment, and Society *
      "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." -- Stephanie Coontz * author of A Strange Stirring *
      "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." -- Stephen Sweet * author of Changing Contours of Work *
      "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 *
      "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 *
      "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 *
      "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, Employment, and Society *
      "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." -- Stephanie Coontz * author of A Strange Stirring *
      "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." -- Stephen Sweet * author of Changing Contours of Work *
      "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 *
      "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 *

      Table of Contents
      Inside the clockwork of male careers / Arlie Russell Hochschild
      Shift work in multiple time zones : some implications of contingent and nonstandard employment for family life / Vicki Smith
      Where families and children's activities meet : gender, meshing work, and family myths / Patricia Berhau, Annette Lareau, and Julie E. Press
      Emotional carework, gender, and the division of household labor / Rebecca J. Erickson
      Why can't I have what I want? Timing employment, marriage, and motherhood / Rosanna Hertz
      Framing couple time and togetherness among American and Norwegian professional couples / Jeremy Schulz
      Love and gratitude : single mothers talk about men's contributions to the second shift / Margaret K. Nelson
      The asking rules of reciprocity / Karen V. Hansen
      Wives who play by the rules : working on emotions in the sport marriage / Steven M. Ortiz
      Emotion work in the age of insecurity / Marianne Cooper
      The crisis of care / Barrie Thorne
      The family work of parenting in public / Marjorie L. DeVault
      Maternally yours : the emotion work of maternal visibility / Anita Ilta Garey
      Invisible care and the illusion of independence / Lynn May Rivas
      Remaking family through subcontracting care : elder care in Taiwanese and Hong Kong immigrant families / Pei-Chia Lan
      The Viacom generation : the consumer child and the corporate parent / Juliet B. Schor
      Consumption as care and belonging : economies of dignity in children's daily lives / Allison J. Pugh
      Interracial intimacy on the commodity frontier / Kimberly McClain DaCosta
      The globalization-family nexus : families as mediating structures of globalization / Nazli Kibria
      Homeland visits : transnational magnified moments among low-wage immigrant men / Hung Cam Thai
      Childbirth at the global crossroads / Arlie Russell Hochschild

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