{"product_id":"so-hows-the-family-and-other-essays-9780520272286","title":"So How's the Family?: And Other Essays","description":"In this new collection of thirteen essays, Arlie Russell Hochschild--author of the groundbreaking exploration of emotional labor, The Managed Heart and The Outsourced Self--focuses squarely on the impact of social forces on the emotional side of intimate life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the \"work\" it takes to keep personal life personal, put feeling into work, and empathize with others; to the cultural \"blur\" between market and home; the effect of a social class gap on family wellbeing; and the movement of care workers around the globe, Hochschild raises deep questions about the modern age. In an eponymous essay, she even points towards a possible future in which a person asking \"How's the family?\" hears the proud answer, \"Couldn't be better.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArlie Hochschild is Professor Emerita of Sociology at UC Berkeley; she is a leading postwar feminist and the author of numerous books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50872673272082,"sku":"9780520272286","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_58bdf691-30d3-451f-a5fd-9b3cee8808d8.jpg?v=1737905254","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/so-hows-the-family-and-other-essays-9780520272286","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}