- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books; Reissue edition (April 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0142002925
- ISBN-13: 978-0142002926
- Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 13 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 370,092 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"No book analyzes the human impact of the work-family track for both sexes more perceptively or thoroughly than this important, provacative study of the dynamics of two-career couples."-- "Newsday""The best discussion I have read on what must be the quintessential domestic bind of our time."-- "The New York Times Book Review""A brillian, urgently needed analysis of the new problems hidden behind the breezy image of the working woman who 'has it all.'"-- Betty Friedman""The Second Shift "is like a scream in the dark. It aches with truths. It cries out for change."-- "Seattle Post Intelligencer""A fascinating read that makes us think twice about how much the Women's Movement still has to accomplish."-- "Parenting""Brings the dilemma of the working mother to life as never before.-- "Newsweek"
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A compassionate view of couples struggling to find time and energy for jobs, children and marriage. The last 20 years have seen a revolution in the job-market and at home as increasing numbers of women have entered the workforce. For working parents today, there is a second shift - the job they do before they get to the office and after they return home. In many marriages, it is the job that tears the family apart. This book aims to help couples through the practical and ideological difficulties of raising children and maintaining a household while both parents work. Over an eight-year period, Fr. Hochschild interviewed couples and observed them as they cooked dinner, shopped, bathed their children and fought against time to accomplish the consuming tasks they'd undertaken. She looks at the division of domestic tasks and the way men and women cope with the gap between their ideals and the reality of overextended lives.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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Hochschild's book is a superb description of what so many of of us live but barely understand. She examines the demands of work in the home and outside, the gender identities that shape our feeling toward work, the goals that shape our chices and the intentions that define our commununication about responsiblity. The author validates the struggle of working women, without bashing men and talks about how to resolve the "stalled revolution" of shared responsibility both at home and in the workplace. Most importantly, Hochschild illuminates how our methods of dealing with the second shift, not the second shift itself per se, negatively impact our children.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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If you have kids, carreer, and a husband, you must read this enlightning social probe into the lives of families just like yours. You will feel 'comfort' knowing that you are not alone if you are feeling crazy, anxious, or overwhelmed. Before you quit your job, or think of having another child.....Read this!!!
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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This book, which voices something that has been long silent, explains how women have been overburdened as a result of living in a world which no longer accepts part-time work. Even though women have resulted in incredible gains in the latter half of the 20th century, and have gained enfranchisement into many careers that were formerly only the domain of men, there still lurks the job of being a mother, which is NOT a part-time job. This book is highly recommended, not for only the truth and candor that it tells, but for the questions that it poses.
Dexter Fabi
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