The Second Shift

by Hochschild, Arlie; Machung, Anne (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780143120339
• ISBN10: 0143120336
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781101575512
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-31
• Publisher: Penguin Group USA
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Summary

A landmark study of two-career parents, and a compassionate inside view of ten couples struggling to find time and energy for jobs, children and marriage.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Introduction	p. xxiii
The Family Speed-up	p. 1
Marriage in a Stalled Revolution	p. 11
The Cultural Cover-up	p. 22
Joey's Problem: Nancy and Evan Holt	p. 34
The Family Myth of the Traditional: Frank and Carmen Delacorte	p. 61
A Notion of Manhood and Giving Thanks: Peter and Nina Tanagawa	p. 77
Having It All and Giving It Up: Ann and Robert Myerson	p. 96
A Scarcity of Gratitude: Seth and Jessica Stein	p. 111
An Unsteady Marriage and a Job She Loves: Anita and Ray Judson	p. 129
The "His" and "Hers" of Sharing: Greg and Carol Alston	p. 143
No Time Together: Barbara and John Livingston	p. 160
Sharing Showdown and Natural Drift: Pathways to the New Man	p. 173
Beneath the Cover-up: Strategies and Strains	p. 188
Tensions in Marriage in an Age of Divorce	p. 201
Men Who Do and Men Who Don't	p. 213
The Working Wife as Urbanizing Peasant	p. 235
Stepping into Old Biographies or Making History Happen?	p. 250
Afterword	p. 263
Appendix Research on Who Does the Housework and Child Care	p. 271
Notes	p. 279
Selected Reading	p. 291
Nonprofit Organizations Engaged in Helping Working Families	p. 307
Index	p. 309
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