The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work

摘要: The national bestseller that put "work/family balance" in the headlines and on White House agenda, with a new introduction by author.When "The Time Bind" was first published 1997, it hailed as decade's most influential study of our work/family crisis. In short time since, crisis has only become more acute.Arlie Russell Hochschild, bestselling author Second Shift, spent three summers at Fortune 500 company interviewing top executives, secretaries, factory hands, others. What she found startling: Though every mother nearly father said "family comes first," few these working parents questioned their long hours or took up chances for flextime, paternity leave, other friendly" policies. Why not? It seems roles home work had reversed: offering stimulation, guidance, sense belonging, while place which there too much to do little time. Today Hochschild's findings are relevant than ever. As shows her introduction, borders between family have even permeable. With Internet extending offices domestic enticements -- free snacks, soft music keep employees later jobs, Bind stands an increasingly important warning about way we live work.