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The Outsourced Self: What Happens When We Pay Others to Live Our Lives for Us

Paperback • 2013 • English

The Outsourced Self: What Happens When We Pay Others to Live Our Lives for Us

By Arlie Russell Hochschild

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About the book

A "Publishers Weekly" Best Book of the Year From the famed author of the bestselling "The Second Shift" and "The Time Bind," 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 wa...Show more

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ISBN

9781250024190

Publisher

Picador USA

Published year

2013

Language

English

Original title

The Outsourced Self: What Happens When We Pay Others to Live Our Lives for Us

Format

Paperback

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