Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of three "New York Times" Notable Books, has been one of the freshest and most popular voices in feminist sociology over the last decades. Her influential, unusually perceptive work has opened up new ways of seeing family life, love, gender, the workplace, market tra[...]

In private life, we try to induce or suppress love, envy, and anger through deep acting or "emotion work", just as we manage our outer expressions of feeling through surface acting. In trying to bridge a gap between what we feel and what we "ought" to feel, we take guidance from "feeling rules" abou[...]

From the famed author of the bestselling "The Second Shift" and "The Time Bind," a pathbreaking look at the transformation of private life in our for-profit worldThe family has long been a haven in a heartless world, the one place immune to market forces and economic calculations, where the personal[...]

Med udgangspunkt i en case-analyse af en stor amerikansk virksomhed i perioden 1990-1993 vises det hvordan balancen mellem arbejdsliv og familieliv efterhånden er forskubbet i arbejdets favør. En sociologisk og psykologisk kritik af detsenmoderne liv[...]