The Second Shift
Working Families and the Revolution at Home
Published on 31. January 2012
352 pages
978-1-101-57551-2 (ISBN)
Description
Fifteen years after its first publication, The Second Shift remains just as important and relevant today as it did then. As the majority of women entered the workforce, sociologist and Berkeley professor Arlie Hochschild was one of the first to talk about what really happens in dual-career households. Many people were amazed to find that women still did the majority of childcare and housework even though they also worked outside the home. Now, in this updated edition with a new introduction from the author, we discover how much things have, or have not, changed for women today.
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01/2012
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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.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The Family Speed-up
- Chapter 2: Marriage in a Stalled Revolution
- Chapter 3: The Cultural Cover-up
- Chapter 4: Joey's Problem: Nancy and Evan Holt
- Chapter 5: The Family Myth of the Traditional: Frank and Carmen Delacorte
- Chapter 6: A Notion of Manhood and Giving Thanks: Peter and Nina Tanagawa
- Chapter 7: Having It All and Giving It Up: Ann and Robert Myerson
- Chapter 8: A Scarcity of Gratitude: Seth and Jessica Stein
- Chapter 9: An Unsteady Marriage and a Job She Loves: Anita and Ray Judson
- Chapter 10: The "His" and "Hers" of Sharing: Greg and Carol Alston
- Chapter 11: No Time Together: Barbara and John Livingston
- Chapter 12: Sharing Showdown and Natural Drift: Pathways to the New Man
- Chapter 13: Beneath the Cover-up: Strategies and Strains
- Chapter 14: Tensions in Marriage in an Age of Divorce
- Chapter 15: Men Who Do and Men Who Don't
- Chapter 16: The Working Wife as Urbanizing Peasant
- Chapter 17: Stepping into Old Biographies or Making History Happen?
- Afterword
- Appendix: Research on Who Does the Housework and Child Care
- Notes
- Selected Reading
- Nonprofit Organizations Engaged in Helping Working Families
- Index
