Arlie Russell Hochschild

Let's stop insulting each other and really get to know people. I mean, have a few beers and go on a fishing…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

And were in the middle of a perfect storm. These days, government social services are being bad-mouthed and defunded. The non-profit world…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

Three factors--the belief that child care is female work, the failure of ex-husbands to support their children, and higher male wages at…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

Most women work one shift at the office or factory and a 'second shift' at home.

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

No work-family balance will ever fully take hold if the social conditions that might make it possible - men who are willing…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

“[T]he Tea Party was not so much an official political group as a culture, a way of seeing and feeling about a…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

“Those on the far right I came to know felt two things. First, they felt the deep story was true. Second, they…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

“The Measure of America, a report of the Social Science Research Council, ranks every state in the United States on its “human…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

We think we're saving time with microwaves, cell phones, beepers, computers and voice mail, but often these things help us create the…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

To televisionize any serious problem, the program directors face the task of making the message 'go down smooth' until the audience is…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

The strategy we need to pursue is one of recovering our time - to push back on our hours of work. We…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be…

— 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.…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

Has Bill Clinton inspired idealism in the young, as he himself was inspired by John F. Kennedy? Or has he actually reduced…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

“Memory, Evans-Pritchard reasoned, was an indirect expression of power. The Arenos faced structural amnesia about something else and linked it to a…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

If in the earlier part of the century, middle-class children suffered from overattentive mothers, from being "mother's only accomplishment," today's children may…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

If in previous decades large historic events drew people together and oriented them toward collective action, the recent double trend toward greater…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

I really have this sense that time is passing, and it's important to do what you have wanted to do.

— 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…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

“The split has widened because the right has moved right, not because the left has moved left. Republican presidents Eisenhower, Nixon, and…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

I was 13 when my parents moved to Israel, and I was put in a Scottish mission school. Ninety-nine percent of the…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild

Ellen Galinsky's surveys at the Families and Work Institute pointed to a desirable norm for many parents for working not full-time, but…

— Arlie Russell Hochschild