The outsourced self

From the famed author of the bestselling The Second Shift and The Time Bind, this book is a pathbreaking look at the transformation of private life in our for-profit world. The family has long been a haven in a heartless world, the one place immune to market forces and economic calculations, where the personal, the private, and the emotional hold sway. Yet as Arlie Russell Hochschild shows in The Outsourced Self, that is no longer the case: everything that was once part of private life -- love, friendship, child rearing -- is being transformed into packaged expertise to be sold back to…