The time bind
Subtitle: when work becomes home and home becomes work
By: Arlie Russell Hochschild.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: Dual-career families -- United States; Work and family -- United States; Sex role -- United States; Working mothers -- United States
Other titles: When work becomes home and home becomes work
Description: In her remarkable new book, The Time Bind, Arlie Hochschild brings us startling news of the ways in which home is being invaded by the time pressures and efficiencies of work, while the workplace is, for many parents, being transformed into a strange kind of surrogate home.

For three years at a Fortune 500 company, she interviewed everyone from top executives to factory hands, sat in on business meetings, followed sales teams onto golf courses, and trailed working parents and their children through their days.

In a series of vivid portraits, Hochschild paints a surprising picture of couples as time thieves, children as emotional bill-collectors, spouses as efficiency experts, parents who feel like helpful mothers and fathers mainly to their workmates, and women who - like generations of men before them - flee the pressures of home for the relief of work.

Hochschild's groundbreaking study exposes our crunch-time world and reveals how, after the first shift at work and the second at home, comes the third, and hardest, shift of repairing the damage created by the first two.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-307) and index.