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The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work (Paperback)

by Arlie Russell Hochschild (Author)
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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Owl Books,U.S.; 2 edition (23 Jun 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0805066438
  • ISBN-13: 978-0805066432
  • Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.8 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 480,335 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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" Truly subversive....Hochschild has exposed something that feels like an unacknowledged home truth, America's clean little secret: work, not even the substance of it but the buzzy surface feeling of office life, is for many a source of pleasure.--"The New York Times Book Review"


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A groundbreaking analysis of the "work/family balance" explores the tenuous relationship between career and family commitment and challenges the growing encroachment of the workplace on everyday lives. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

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4.0 out of 5 stars An important examination of a self defeating paradigm, 9 Jan 1999
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This review is from: The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work (Hardcover)
The Time Bind was interesting in that it stops us long enough to examine the endless pressures that we believe are immutable. Ms Hochschild raises questions of how much pressure we may create for ourselves, how that is reinforced by the workplace and the economic, social, political climate that fosters it and the painful consequence of reduced quality of life. In attempting to raise our consciousness on this matter and to ask about our priorities we are invited to step briefly outside the current paradigm to consider saner possibilities. Since so many people seem so very dissatisfied, this can only be a good thing.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Despite what some people think, it's about home., 6 Nov 1998
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This review is from: The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work (Paperback)
The Time Bind is not about work. The reason that Hochschild uses so much work based data is because she wants to show that there is nothing at work in particular that makes us HAVE to be there. She talks about the horrible lack of support for young families that ends up making work more pleasant than home because at least at work parents are supported and know when they are doing the right thing or the wrong thing. (At home you never know if taking or not taking the lollipop from your 2-year-old will render them into raving loonies in 20 years.) The only time she really gets into how work itself contributes is when she says that many family friendly policies are an illusion or are believed to be an illusion by the workers. However, this book is not quite as clear as the Second Shift, which I thought was brilliant. It is also clarified by a knowledge of the Second Shift; it's easier to see the family orientation if you're familiar with her other work.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Arise, ye (female) prisoners of expoitation!, 2 Jul 1997
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This review is from: The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work (Hardcover)
This book is a worthwhile read more for its failings than for its substance, but it is definitely a worthwhile read for the failings alone. I saw Ms. Hochschild, a Berkeley sociologist, interviewed by David Gergen and found her recommendations at the end of the interview oddly "out of sync" with her prior comments about her study of the conflict between work and family life. Having gone on to a career as a human resource manager after graduating from Berkeley, however, I wanted to know more about the book for both personal and professional reasons. How disappointing it was! Perhaps the strongest point in the book is Ms. Hochschild's revelation of data showing a high degree of correlation between wealth/education and working women., i.e.: many women who work don't do so because they have to but because they want to. At this point, the reader is rightly anticipating a meaty development of the question of why women would feel so strongly that they have to work when the reality is that they simply want to work. For example, have "no fault" divorce laws made women more economically insecure? Have the more strident elements of the feminist movement made sacrifice for the sake of family socially and psychologically a "suckers choice"? Unfortunately, Ms. Hochschild's ideological bent prevents her from developing this in a professional way; her work suffers from it, and reader is left sorely disappointed. For example, she doesn't gather data from people who have chosen to leave the workplace, only from those who have chosen to stay --- as even sociologists at Berkeley used to say, "Where's the control group"? Accordingly (given the skewed data input and her ideological bent), her "analysis" of causality is curiously warped: its all management's fault for having introduced Total Quality Management (which gives employees more power over their work) as a machiavellian scheme to exploit them even further! Having watched and tried to help a number of women and men over the years as they struggled with the feminist lie that careers are more important than family, and having helped introduce TQM and other "enrichment" plans partly to help employees manage the conflict, I know this is a lie. There are numerous books out that provide practical and valuable guidance to men and women who are dealing with the work/family life conflict. This isn't one of them. Nor does it provide a sound foundation for the making of social policy. Alas, how the light from the "Athens of the West" dimmed!
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