Arlie Russell Hochschild – författare

In private life, we try to induce or suppress love, envy, and anger through deep acting or "emotion work", just as we manage our outer expressions of feeling through surface acting. In trying to bridge a gap between what we feel and what we "ought" to feel, we take guidance from "feeling rules" about what is owing to others in a given situation. Based on our private mutual understandings of feeling rules, we make a "gift exchange" of acts of emotion management. We bow to each other not simply from the waist, but from the heart. But what occurs when emotion work, feeling rules, and the gift of exchange are introduced into the public world of work? In search of the answer, Arlie Russell Hochschild closely examines two groups of public-contact workers: flight attendants and bill collectors. The flight attendant's job is to deliver a service and create further demand for it, to enhance the status of the customer and be "nicer than natural". The bill collector's job is to collect on the service, and if necessary, to deflate the status of the customer by being "nastier than natural."Between these extremes, roughly one-third of American men and one-half of American women hold jobs that call for substantial emotional labor. In many of these jobs, they are trained to accept feeling rules and techniques of emotion management that serve the company's commercial purpose. Just as we have seldom recognized or understood emotional labor, we have not appreciated its cost to those who do it for a living. Like a physical laborer who becomes estranged from what he or she makes, an emotional laborer, such as a flight attendant, can become estranged not only from her own expressions of feeling (her smile is not "her" smile), but also from what she actually feels (her managed friendliness). This estrangement, though a valuable defense against stress, is also an important occupational hazard, because it is through our feelings that we are connected with those around us. On the basis of this book, Hochschild was featured in Key Sociological Thinkers, edited by Rob Stones. This book was also the winner of the Charles Cooley Award in 1983, awarded by the American Sociological Association and received an honorable mention for the C. Wright Mills Award.

In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country - a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of the ideas she famously champions, Hochschild nevertheless finds common ground and quickly warms to the people she meets, people whose concerns are actually ones that all Americans share: the desire for community, the embrace of family, and hopes for their children.

In her first book since the widely acclaimed Strangers in Their Own Land, National Book Award finalist and bestselling author Arlie Russell Hochschild now ventures to Appalachia, uncovering the "pride paradox" that has given the right's appeals such resonance.A 2024 New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice PickA New York Times Book Review Best Book of the YearOne of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2024Longlisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for NonfictionFor all the attempts to understand the state of American politics and the blue/red divide, we've ignored what economic and cultural loss can do to pride. What happens, Arlie Russell Hochschild asks, when a proud people in a hard-hit region suffer the deep loss of pride and are confronted with a powerful political appeal that makes it feel "stolen"?Hochschild's research drew her to Pikeville, Kentucky, in the heart of Appalachia, within the whitest and second-poorest congressional district in the nation, where the city was reeling: coal jobs had left, crushing poverty persisted, and a deadly drug crisis struck the region. Although Pikeville was in the political center thirty years ago, by 2016, 80 percent of the district's population voted for Donald Trump. Her brilliant exploration of the town's response to a white nationalist march in 2017 — a rehearsal for the deadly Unite the Right march that would soon take place in Charlottesville, Virginia — takes us deep inside a torn and suffering community.Hochschild focuses on a group swept up in the shifting political landscape: blue-collar men. In small churches, hillside hollers, roadside diners, trailer parks, and Narcotics Anonymous meetings, Hochschild introduces us to unforgettable people, and offers an original lens through which to see them and the wider world. In Stolen Pride, Hochschild incisively explores our dangerous times, even as she also points a way forward."A piercing . . . impressive and nuanced assessment of a critical factor in American politics." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of three "New York Times" Notable Books, has been one of the freshest and most popular voices in feminist sociology over the last decades. Her influential, unusually perceptive work has opened up new ways of seeing family life, love, gender, the workplace, market transactions - indeed, American life itself. This book gathers some of Hochschild's most important and most widely read articles in one place, includes new work, and brings several essays to American audiences for the first time. Each chapter reflects on the complex negotiations we make day to day to juggle the conflicting demands of love and work. Taken together, they are a compelling, often startling, look at how our everyday lives are shaped by modern capitalism. These essays, rich with the details of everyday life, explore larger social issues by looking at a series of intimate moments in people's lives. Among them, "Love and Gold" investigates the globalization of love by focusing on care workers who leave their own children and elderly to care for children and the elderly in wealthy countries.In "The Commodity Frontier," Hochschild considers an Internet ad for a 'beautiful, smart, hostess, good masseuse - $400/week', and explores our responses to personal services for hire. In "From the Frying Pan into the Fire" she asks if capitalism is a religion. In addition to these recent essays, several of Hochschild's important early essays, such as 'Inside the Clockwork of Male Careers', have been revised and updated for this collection.

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. From 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."

In private life we try to induce or suppress love, envy, and anger through deep acting or "emotional work," just as we manage our outer expressions through surface acting. But what happens when this system of adjusting emotions is adapted to commercial purposes? Hochschild examines the cost of this kind of "emotional labor." She vividly describes from a humanist and feminist perspective the process of estrangement from personal feelings and its role as an "occupational hazard" for one-third of America''s workforce.

In private life, we try to induce or suppress love, envy, and anger through deep acting or "emotion work," just as we manage our outer expressions of feeling through surface acting. In trying to bridge a gap between what we feel and what we "ought" to feel, we take guidance from "feeling rules" about what is owing to others in a given situation. Based on our private mutual understandings of feeling rules, we make a "gift exchange" of acts of emotion management. We bow to each other not simply from the waist, but from the heart.But what occurs when emotion work, feeling rules, and the gift of exchange are introduced into the public world of work? In search of the answer, Arlie Russell Hochschild closely examines two groups of public-contact workers: flight attendants and bill collectors. The flight attendant’s job is to deliver a service and create further demand for it, to enhance the status of the customer and be "nicer than natural." The bill collector’s job is to collect on the service, and if necessary, to deflate the status of the customer by being "nastier than natural." Between these extremes, roughly one-third of American men and one-half of American women hold jobs that call for substantial emotional labor. In many of these jobs, they are trained to accept feeling rules and techniques of emotion management that serve the company’s commercial purpose.Just as we have seldom recognized or understood emotional labor, we have not appreciated its cost to those who do it for a living. Like a physical laborer who becomes estranged from what he or she makes, an emotional laborer, such as a flight attendant, can become estranged not only from her own expressions of feeling (her smile is not "her" smile), but also from what she actually feels (her managed friendliness). This estrangement, though a valuable defense against stress, is also an important occupational hazard, because it is through our feelings that we are connected with those around us.On the basis of this book, Hochschild was featured in Key Sociological Thinkers, edited by Rob Stones. This book was also the winner of the Charles Cooley Award in 1983, awarded by the American Sociological Association and received an honorable mention for the C. Wright Mills Award.

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.From 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."

In Strangers in Their Own Land, the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country - a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of the ideas she famously champions, Hochschild nevertheless finds common ground and quickly warms to the people she meets, people whose concerns are actually ones that all Americans share: the desire for community, the embrace of family, and hopes for their children.

Pikeville, Kentucky. Der Niedergang des Kohlebergbaus, erdrückende Armut, eine sich zuspitzende Drogenkrise: Der zweitärmste Kongressbezirk der Vereinigten Staaten befindet sich inmitten vielfältiger Krisen. Während in Pikeville vor dreißig Jahren noch mehrheitlich die Demokraten gewählt wurden, stimmten 2016 und 2024 mehr als achtzig Prozent der Bevölkerung des Bezirks für Donald Trump.Was passiert, fragt Arlie Russell Hochschild, wenn Menschen in einer schwer getroffenen Region nicht nur Sicherheiten, sondern auch ihren Stolz verlieren und von einem politischen Appell adressiert werden, der ihnen das Gefühl vermittelt, bestohlen zu werden?In diesem Buch konzentriert sich Hochschild auf Männer aus der Arbeiterschaft. Wir treffen sie in kleinen Kirchen, Bergdörfern, Lokalen, Wohnwagenparks und bei Zusammenkünften der Anonymen Drogensüchtigen. Ihre Lebensrealitäten geben Auskunft über eine sich verändernde politische Landschaft.Hochschilds brillante Untersuchung nimmt die Reaktion der Stadt auf einen Aufmarsch weißer Nationalisten im Jahr 2017 in den Blick und führt uns tief in eine zerrissene Gemeinschaft. Doch zugleich zeigt dieses Buch auch einen Weg nach vorne auf.

Pikeville, Kentucky. Der Niedergang des Kohlebergbaus, erdrückende Armut, eine sich zuspitzende Drogenkrise: Der zweitärmste Kongressbezirk der Vereinigten Staaten befindet sich inmitten vielfältiger Krisen. Während in Pikeville vor dreißig Jahren noch mehrheitlich die Demokraten gewählt wurden, stimmten 2016 und 2024 mehr als achtzig Prozent der Bevölkerung des Bezirks für Donald Trump.Was passiert, fragt Arlie Russell Hochschild, wenn Menschen in einer schwer getroffenen Region nicht nur Sicherheiten, sondern auch ihren Stolz verlieren und von einem politischen Appell adressiert werden, der ihnen das Gefühl vermittelt, bestohlen zu werden?In diesem Buch konzentriert sich Hochschild auf Männer aus der Arbeiterschaft. Wir treffen sie in kleinen Kirchen, Bergdörfern, Lokalen, Wohnwagenparks und bei Zusammenkünften der Anonymen Drogensüchtigen. Ihre Lebensrealitäten geben Auskunft über eine sich verändernde politische Landschaft.Hochschilds brillante Untersuchung nimmt die Reaktion der Stadt auf einen Aufmarsch weißer Nationalisten im Jahr 2017 in den Blick und führt uns tief in eine zerrissene Gemeinschaft. Doch zugleich zeigt dieses Buch auch einen Weg nach vorne auf.

La renombrada socióloga Arlie Hochschild se embarca en un interesante viaje que invita a la reflexión desde su liberal Berkeley, en California, hasta las profundidades de Luisiana, un bastión de la derecha conservadora. A medida que va conociendo a personas que se oponen firmemente a muchas de las ideas que ella siempre ha defendido, Hochschild encuentra sin embargo puntos de encuentro. Son personas con preocupaciones que comparten todos los estadounidenses: el deseo de comunidad, la aceptación de la familia y esperanzas para sus hijos. Así, Extraños en su propia tierra va más allá de la idea liberal más extendida de que se trata de personas que han sido engañadas para votar en contra de sus propios intereses.Hochschild encuentra vidas destrozadas por salarios estancados, la pérdida de un hogar, un sueño americano escurridizo, y analiza los puntos de vista políticos que tienen sentido en el contexto de sus vidas. Basándose en su conocimiento experto de la sociología de las emociones, nos ayuda a comprender cómo es la vida en el Estados Unidos republicano. A lo largo del camino, encuentra respuestas a una de las preguntas cruciales de la política estadounidense contemporánea: ¿por qué las personas que más se beneficiarían de la intervención gubernamental "liberal" aborrecen la sola idea?

Hochschild y sus investigadores asociados entrevistaron a cincuenta parejas y observaron una docena de hogares a lo largo de las décadas de 1970 y 1980, para explorar la brecha de ocio entre hombres y mujeres. La investigación demostró que las mujeres aún se hacen cargo de la mayoría de las responsabilidades del hogar y del cuidado de los niños a pesar de su ingreso en la fuerza laboral.Esta "doble jornada" afectaba a las parejas, provocando sentimientos de culpa, tensión marital, falta de interés sexual y sueño.Por otro lado, Hochschild difundió las historias de algunos hombres que compartieron por igual la carga del trabajo doméstico y el cuidado de los niños con sus esposas, demostrando que si bien es poco común, es una realidad para algunas parejas.La investigación presentaba además una clara división entre las preferencias ideológicas de los géneros y las clases sociales. Sumando el tiempo en el trabajo remunerado, el cuidado de los niños y las tareas del hogar, descubrió que las madres trabajadoras dedican un mes de trabajo al año más que sus cónyuges.