At the Heart of Work and Family: Engaging the Ideas of Arlie Hochschild

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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. These concepts, such as "the second shift," "the economy of gratitude," "emotion work," "feeling rules," "gender strategies," and "the time bind," are basic to sociology and have shaped both popular discussions and academic study. The common thread in these essays covering the gender division of housework, childcare networks, families in the global economy, and children of consumers is the incorporation of emotion, feelings, and meaning into the study of working families. These examinations, like Hochschild's own work, connect micro-level interaction to larger social and economic forces and illustrate the continued relevance of linking economic relations to emotional ones for understanding contemporary work-family life. Contents Foreword Editors’ Acknowledgments Guide to Topics Introduction: An Eye on Eotion in the Study of Families and Work PART I: Family Time Binds 1. Inside the Clockwork of Male Careers 2. Shift Work in Multiple Time Zones: Some Implications of Contingent and Nonstandard Employment for Family Life 3. Where Families and Children’s Activities Meet: Gender, MESHing Work, and Family Myths 4. Emotional Carework, Gender, and the Division of Household Labor 5. “Why Can’t I Have What I Want?”: Timing Employment, Marriage, and Motherhood PART II: Work/Family Feeling Rules for Managing the Heart 6. Framing Couple Time and Togetherness among American and Norwegian Professional Couples 7. Love and Gratitude: Single Mothers Talk about Men's Contributions to the Second Shift 8. The Asking Rules of Reciprocity 9. Wives Who Play by the Rules: Working on Emotions in the Sport Marriage 10. Emotion Work in the Age of Insecurity PART III: Emotional Geography of Invisible Work 11. The Crisis of Care 12. The Family Work of Parenting in Public 13. Maternally Yours: The Emotion Work of "Maternal Visibility" 14. Invisible Care and the Illusion of Independence PART IV: Commodifying Intimate Life 15. Remaking Family through Subcontracting Care: Elder Care in Taiwanese and Hong Kong Immigrant Families 16. The Viacom Generation: The Consumer Child and the Corporate Parent 17. Consumption as Care and Belonging: Economies of Dignity in Children's Daily Lives 18. Interracial Intimacy on the Commodity Frontier PART V. Global Care Chains 19. The Globalization-Family Nexus: Families as Mediating Structures of Globalization 20. Homeland Visits: Transnational Magnified Moments among Low-Wage Immigrant Men 21. Childbirth at the Global Crossroads Afterword Notes on Contributors