Arlie Russell Hochschild The influx of women into paid work and her increased power raise a woman’s aspirations and hopes for equal treatment at home. Her lower wage and status at work and the threat of divorce reduce what she presses for and actually expects. – Arlie Russell Hochschild
Arlie Russell Hochschild I think we have a rawer version of capitalism and a more fragile community and family base than other nations. We are a more individualistic culture. From the Boston Tea Party on, we’ve had too little faith in government. – Arlie Russell Hochschild
Arlie Russell Hochschild Could it be, I wonder, that there is such a thing as a wantologist, someone we can hire to figure out what we want? Have I arrived at some final telling moment in my research on outsourcing intimate parts of our lives, or at the absurdist edge of the market frontier? – Arlie Russell Hochschild
Arlie Russell Hochschild It’s been a long struggle. But we’ve made huge progress. I mean, when I started at Berkeley, women weren’t allowed to be part of the band. No women were allowed into the male faculty club. I mean, I was there. I remember that! The worlds were so divided. So the change has been huge. – Arlie Russell Hochschild
Arlie Russell Hochschild Compared with the employed, the jobless are less likely to vote, volunteer, see friends and talk to family. Even on weekends, the jobless spend more time alone than those with jobs. – Arlie Russell Hochschild
Arlie Russell Hochschild Corporate engineers have looked at how women are with each other, borrowing the best tips from female neighborhood culture and then transporting them back into the bosom of capitalism. They’ve feminized capitalism. – Arlie Russell Hochschild
Arlie Russell Hochschild Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we’ve been doing it faster. – Arlie Russell Hochschild
Arlie Russell Hochschild And the Republican Party especially associates the market with the idea of progress, goodness, family, and points us toward the mall as an answer to all our personal dreams. – Arlie Russell Hochschild
Arlie Russell Hochschild And we’re in the middle of a ‘perfect storm.’ These days, government social services are being bad-mouthed and defunded. The non-profit world is looking more and more like the for-profit world. The growing gap between rich and poor makes most of us very anxious about where we stand. – Arlie Russell Hochschild
Arlie Russell Hochschild The emotional magnets beneath home and workplace are in the process of being reversed. Work has become a form of ‘home’ and home has become ‘work.’ – Arlie Russell Hochschild
Arlie Russell Hochschild What is for sale, what is not? If we really think that making your apologies to your wife or reading a bedside story to your child are activities that we can pay a stranger to do, then, without moralising, what has happened to us? – Arlie Russell Hochschild
Arlie Russell Hochschild The explosion in the number of available personal services says a great deal about changing ideas of what we can reasonably expect from whom. – Arlie Russell Hochschild
