The Time Bind

When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work

Arlie Russell Hochschild

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The Time Bind
PART IAbout TimeCHAPTER 1The Waving WindowIt is 6:45 A.M. on a fine June day in the midwestern town of Spotted Deer. At a childcare center in the basement of the Baptist church, Diane Caselli, a childcare worker in blue jeans and loose shirt, methodically turns over small upended chairs that rest on a Lilliputian breakfast table. She sets out small bowls, spoons, napkins, and a pitcher of milk around a commanding box of Cheerios. The room is cheerful, clean, half-asleep. Diane moves slowly past neatly shelved puzzles and toys, a hat rack hung with floppy, donated dress-up hats

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"truly subversive . . . .Mr. Hochschild has exposed something that feels like an unacknowledged home truth, America's clean little secret. "-The New York Times Book Revie

"One of the best critiques of work in America."-Los Angeles Times

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Arlie Russell Hochschild is the author of two New York Times Notable Books of the Year, The Second Shift and The Managed Heart. A professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, she lives in San Francisco.

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The Time Bind
When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work
Arlie Russell Hochschild

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April 2001
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