Paid to Party
Working Time and Emotion in Direct Home Sales
Will be published approx. on 31. January 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-8135-5184-5 (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.
Reviews / Votes
"In addition to its well-crafted analysis of direct home sales, this book insightfully explores the role of emotion in the social construction of time."- Amy S. Wharton (professor of sociology, Washington State University, Vancouver) "In addition to its well-crafted analysis of direct home sales, this book insightfully explores the role of emotion in the social construction of time."
- Amy S. Wharton (professor of sociology, Washington State University, Vancouver) "With exemplary methods, compelling data, and sophisticated analysis, this revealing study shows us how the temporal and emotional dynamics of work and family reproduce traditional gender roles."
- Michael G. Flaherty (author of The Textures of Time: Agency and Temporal Experience) "With exemplary methods, compelling data, and sophisticated analysis, this revealing study shows us how the temporal and emotional dynamics of work and family reproduce traditional gender roles."
- Michael G. Flaherty (author of The Textures of Time: Agency and Temporal Experience)
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New Brunswick NJ
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
313 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8135-5184-5 (9780813551845)
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Persons
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 and the associate dean for faculty affairs at Goucher College.
JANET HINSON SHOPE is a professor of sociology and the associate dean for faculty affairs at Goucher College.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Creating a Feel-Good Business
2. From Temporal Acrobats to Architects
3. Out with the Old, In with the New
4. The Girls' Night Out
5. Let the Games Begin
6. Just Not Buying It
Conclusion
Appendix A. Getting Our Own Party Started: Studying Direct Home Sales
Appendix B. Interview Guide for DHS Consultants
Notes
References
Index
Introduction
1. Creating a Feel-Good Business
2. From Temporal Acrobats to Architects
3. Out with the Old, In with the New
4. The Girls' Night Out
5. Let the Games Begin
6. Just Not Buying It
Conclusion
Appendix A. Getting Our Own Party Started: Studying Direct Home Sales
Appendix B. Interview Guide for DHS Consultants
Notes
References
Index