The Outsourced Self by Arlie Russell Hochschild
Intimate Life in Market Times
This book examines how modern life increasingly relies on markets and paid strangers to perform intimate and emotional work— from childcare, eldercare, and housecleaning to surrogate parenting and professional intimacies—arguing that people are 'outsourcing' parts of their selves and relationships in response to time pressures, economic changes, and cultural shifts; it explores the social, moral, and psychological consequences of commodifying care and emotion, the inequalities this creates, and the ambivalent feelings of relief, guilt, and distance experienced by both providers and recipients.
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- 2012
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