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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

Topics: Arrived Could Edge Figure Final Frontier Hire Intimate Lives Market Moment Our Our Lives Out Outsourcing Parts Research Some Someone Such A Thing Telling Thing Want Wonder I Wonder

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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

Topics: About Available Changing Deal Expect Explosion Great Great Deal Ideas Number Personal Reasonably Says Services Whom

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The more anxious, isolated and time-deprived we are, the more likely we are to turn to paid personal services. To finance these extra services, we work longer hours. This leaves less time to spend with family, friends and neighbors; we become less likely to call on them for help, and they on us.

~Arlie Russell Hochschild

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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

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The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.'

~Arlie Russell Hochschild

Topics: Advanced American American Life Family Insecurity Led Life Looks Peaceful Prosperous Shifts Smooth Some Surface Underneath Us Work

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Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs.

~Arlie Russell Hochschild

Topics: Aspire End Fortunes Guarded Happy Jobs Love Many Marriages Up Young

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If in previous decades large historic events drew people together and oriented them toward collective action, the recent double trend toward greater choice but less security leads the young to see their lives in more individual terms. Big events collectivize. Little events atomize.

~Arlie Russell Hochschild

Topics: Action Big Choice Collective Decades Double Drew Events Greater Historic Individual Large Leads Less Little Lives More Oriented People Previous Recent Security See Terms Them Together Toward Trend Young

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We don't live with the community of yesteryear. And we don't enjoy the public services Europeans do. So we turn to the market. Once we do, we find that service providers raise the standards of personal life, so that we come to feel we need them to live our 'best' personal lives.

~Arlie Russell Hochschild

Topics: Best Come Community Enjoy Europeans Feel Find Life Live Lives Market Need Once Our Personal Personal Life Personal Lives Providers Public Raise Service Services Standards Them Turn

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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

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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

Topics: Answer Associates Dreams Family Goodness Idea Mall Market Our Party Personal Points Progress Republican Republican Party Toward Us

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: January 15th, 1940

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