The Second Shift : : Working Families and the Revolution at Home

Locations
Call Number: 306.872 Ho
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	306.872 Ho	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Rev. ed. of: The second shift : working parents and the revolution at home. 1989.
1. Family speed-up -- 2. Marriage in a stalled revolution -- 3. The cultural cover-up -- 4. Joey's problem: Nancy and Evan Holt -- 5. The family myth of the traditional: Frank and Carmen Delacorte -- 6. A notion of manhood and giving thanks: Peter and Nina Tanagawa -- 7. Having it all and giving it up: Ann and Robert Myerson -- 8. A scarcity of gratitude: Seth and Jessica Stein -- 9. An unsteady marriage and a job she loves: Anita and Ray Judson -- 10. The "his" and "hers" of sharing: Greg and Carol Alston -- 11. No time together: Barbara and John Livingston -- 12. Sharing showdown and natural drift: pathways to the new man -- 13. Beneath the cover-up: strategies and strains -- 14. Tensions in marriage in the age of divorce -- 15. Men who do and men who don't -- 16. The working wife as urbanizing peasant -- 17. Stepping into old biographies or making history happen? -- Appendix: Research on who does the housework and child care -- Nonprofit organizations engaged in helping working families.
"More than twenty years ago, sociologist and University of California, Berkeley, professor Arlie Hochschild set off a tidal wave of conversation and controversy with his bestselling book, The Second Shift In it, she examined what really happens in dual-career households. Adding together time in paid work, child care, and housework, she found that working mothers put in a month of work a year more than their spouses. Updated for a workforce now half female, this edition cites a range of new studies and statistics and includes a new afterword in which Hochschild assesses how much-and how little-has changed for women today."--pub. desc.

REVIEWS & SUMMARIES

Summary / Annotation
Table of Contents
Author Notes

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Interesting to Read in 2020 submitted by crp on July 28, 2020, 1:18pm I thought this book was interesting to read because the featured families, couples, and stories are relatable. I wish that the work was cited better, but from the perspective of a working wife, mother, and professional, it is helpful to read these stories to place into context one's own experience. I especially enjoyed reading about compensatory mechanisms that some women and men use.