About this title: This title is an influential study of the work/family time dilemma. The author demonstrates that the way people live and work no longer works in a world where time has become increasingly scarce.
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Description: New. 080504471X Cover has very little shelf wear. No spine seams. No remainder mark. Pages are clean with no markings, no creases and no dog-ears. Trade Paperback. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780805044706ISBN:0805044701
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket may have chips and close tears. A former library book with the usual identifiers in a protective glossy dust jacket covering. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Good. read more
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Description: Very Good. Former Library book. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780805044706ISBN:0805044701
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. First Edition. 1997, STATED FIRST EDITION. Line #'s (10-1) indicate first printing. Former library book. Usual library stamping & stickers. Overall the book is in very good condition. No highlighting or markings. DJ has clear mylar cover and appears to be in good condition. read more
Description: Good. No Jacket. Good Metropolitan Books, 1st ed, 1997, pgs are clean, old price written inside front cover, all else is solid and nice. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Metropolitan Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780805044706ISBN:0805044701
Description: Very Good. 0805044701 creasing to front and rear cover. read more
"Initially I approached this book thinking that it told the familiar (and not particularly interesting) tale of how the endless demands of the workplace are slowly eating way at the little time that we have to spend with our families or just ourselves. Well, this is NOT that tale. Rather, Professor Hochschild explores and succinctly describes how the workplace has become the dynamic community in our lives, to the exclusion of all else and at a price. The reasons have little to do with "work becoming unmanageable;" rather, it is "work becoming community." I find her ideas provocative, eye-opening and remarkably non- ideological, as it is simply reporting what is happening in our Country and to some extent throughout the world. Anyone who runs around 24/7 with a cell phone, beeper, blackberry, etc. knows what I am talking about. Highly recommended."
"Arlie Russell Hochschild's book The Time Bind details some of the striking paradoxes in the modern work world, in which women now make up about half of the workforce. While people still like to pay lip service to the idea that home is a haven, family is first priority, and work is only a necessity to support them, Hochschild's research shows the reality indicates just the opposite. People are putting in longer hours at work than ever before. Flex-time and part-time schedules are underutilized, even by the people who champion them. Workers increasingly see the workplace as a "haven," where they are needed and valued, and home as a hurried, hectic, and stressful place to be. In addition to the infamous "second shift" that now still typically waits for women after their long workday, Hochschild describes an emerging "third shift," or the time that now has to be spent dealing with the problems resulting from absentee parents and spouses over the long term. Interestingly, it seems that people have tried to somehow make up for lost dreams of the perfect home and perfect family by creating workplace renditions in their stead. Linda Avery talks about how she goes to work early just to "get away from the house." Her husband only "babysits" at the house when she's at work and takes off from the moment she walks in the door, leaving her to take on the flurried home life of trying to handle the needs of kids, cooking, cleaning, and other endless home demands. When she arrives at work, she gets a "warm welcome" from co-workers in a calm environment where she feels confident and self-assured. Her "children" at work are older, more mature, and easier to manage. She can take on the role of the perfect, well organized, and well-groomed "mother" while at work. Is it any wonder she dreads returning to the "rat race" of home? Bill Denton, likewise, can take on the role of the wise and kindly father at work. He puts in long hours at the office and is always there when people need him, loves what he does, and doesn't even really know what he's missed of his actual home and private life, because his wife has always stayed home and managed the entire sphere there. Vicky King is another paradox. She is a strong advocate of flexible schedules, yet herself is as much a workaholic as Bill Denton. However, she lacks Bill's stay-at-home wife to manage the private/home sphere, and so she and her husband have had to figure out various arrangements that unavoidably pass some of the temporal costs of their absence to their children, who at times feel the need to fight back and demand more from them.
Reading this book brought back to me so many of the challenges that are posed by trying to have an egalitarian marriage, a fulfilling career, and a happy home life with children. I've been on "all sides of the coin," so to speak-worked part-time with children, worked full-time with children, stayed home full-time. In each scenario, there are unsettling questions raised. "Am I missing something important in my children's lives by not being home?" "Can I still bring her to daycare with a cough this bad but no fever?" "Will I give up everything for my children only to fade away into oblivion myself?" In my case, I never really felt like work was a "haven" or some sort of ideal family. The company tried, to be sure, but it was more like a dysfunctional family with a few crazy people and a few people who were less than honest and less than ethical with other co-workers and with clients. I definitely preferred my real home and family to the workplace. In an ideal world, I would prefer to have a good job with equal pay to my spouse's and have us both work about 25 hours a week and share home responsibilities based on our personal preferences."
"I read this book for a sociology class. It is really interesting. It shows how companies are demanding so much time from their employees that it makes it very difficult to make time for family. It might have some bad language, I can't remember."
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