At the Heart of Work and Family: Engaging the Ideas of Arlie Hochschild

Contents

Foreword xi Barbara Ehrenreich Editors’ Acknowledgments xiii Guide to Topics xv Introduction: An Eye on Emotion in the Study of Families and Work 1 Anita Ilta Garey and Karen V. Hansen P A R T I Family Time Binds 1 Inside the Clockwork of Male Careers 17 Arlie Russell Hochschild 2 Shift Work in Multiple Time Zones: Some Implications of Contingent and Nonstandard Employment for Family Life 30 Vicki Smith 3 Where Families and Children’s Activities Meet: Gender, MESHing Work, and Family Myths 43 Patricia Berhau, Annette Lareau, and Julie E. Press 4 Emotional Carework, Gender, and the Division of Household Labor 61 Rebecca J. Erickson 5 “Why Can’t I Have What I Want?”: Timing Employment, Marriage, and Motherhood 74 Rosanna Hertz vii Contents P A R T I I Work/Family Feeling Rules for Managing the Heart 6 Framing Couple Time and Togetherness among American and Norwegian Professional Couples 85 Jeremy Schulz 7 Love and Gratitude: Single Mothers Talk about Men’s Contributions to the Second Shift 100 Margaret K. Nelson 8 The Asking Rules of Reciprocity 112 Karen V. Hansen 9 Wives Who Play by the Rules: Working on Emotions in the Sport Marriage 124 Steven M. Ortiz 10 Emotion Work in the Age of Insecurity 136 Marianne Cooper P A R T I I I Emotional Geography of Invisible Work 11 The Crisis of Care 149 Barrie Thorne 12 The Family Work of Parenting in Public 161 Marjorie L. DeVault 13 Maternally Yours: The Emotion Work of “Maternal Visibility” 171 Anita Ilta Garey 14 Invisible Care and the Illusion of Independence 180 Lynn May Rivas P A R T I V Commodifying Intimate Life 15 Remaking Family through Subcontracting Care: Elder Care in Taiwanese and Hong Kong Immigrant Families 193 Pei-Chia Lan 16 The Viacom Generation: The Consumer Child and the Corporate Parent 206 Juliet B. Schor contents viii 17 Consumption as Care and Belonging: Economies of Dignity in Children’s Daily Lives 217 Allison J. Pugh 18 Interracial Intimacy on the Commodity Frontier 228 Kimberly McClain DaCosta P A R T V Global Care Chains 19 The Globalization-Family Nexus: Families as Mediating Structures of Globalization 243 Nazli Kibria 20 Homeland Visits: Transnational Magnified Moments among Low-Wage Immigrant Men 250 Hung Cam Thai 21 Childbirth at the Global Crossroads 262 Arlie Russell Hochschild Afterword 269 Arlie Russell Hochschild Notes on Contributors 273 contents ix ...