The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home-Quality Guarantee

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An updated edition of a standard in its field that remains relevantmore than thirty years after its original publication.

Over thirty years ago, sociologist and University ofCalifornia, Berkeley professor Arlie Hochschild set off a tidal waveof conversation and controversy with her bestselling book, TheSecond Shift. Hochschild’s examination of life in dual-career housholds finds that, factoring in paid work, child care, andhousework, working mothers put in one month of labor more than their spouses do every year. Updated for a workforce that is now half female, thisedition cites a range of updated studies and statistics, with an afterword from Hochschild that addresses how far working mothers have come since the book’s first publication, and how much farther we all still must go.