Paid to Party
Working Time and Emotion in Direct Home Sales
Published on 31. January 2012
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-8135-5183-8 (ISBN)
Description
On any given night in living rooms across America, women gather for a fun girls' night out to eat, drink, and purchase the latest products-from Amway to Mary Kay cosmetics. Beneath the party atmosphere lies a billion-dollar industry, Direct Home Sales (DHS), which is currently changing how women navigate work and family.
Drawing from numerous interviews with consultants and observations at company-sponsored events, Paid to Party takes a closer look at how DHS promises to change the way we think and feel about the struggles of balancing work and family. Offering a new approach to a flexible work model, DHS companies tell women they can, in fact, have it all and not feel guilty. In DHS, work time is not measured by the hands of the clock, but by the emotional fulfillment and fun it brings.
Drawing from numerous interviews with consultants and observations at company-sponsored events, Paid to Party takes a closer look at how DHS promises to change the way we think and feel about the struggles of balancing work and family. Offering a new approach to a flexible work model, DHS companies tell women they can, in fact, have it all and not feel guilty. In DHS, work time is not measured by the hands of the clock, but by the emotional fulfillment and fun it brings.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Brunswick, NJ
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Weight
456 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8135-5183-8 (9780813551838)
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Jamie L. Mullaney is an associate professor of sociology at Goucher College. She is the author of Everyone Is NOT Doing It: Abstinence and Personal Identity.
Janet Hinson Shope is a professor of sociology at Goucher College. Her current research focuses on gender issues in South Africa.
Janet Hinson Shope is a professor of sociology at Goucher College. Her current research focuses on gender issues in South Africa.