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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

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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

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Ellen Galinsky's surveys at the Families and Work Institute pointed to a desirable norm for many parents for working not full-time, but part-time. And I get that. I mean, Norway has a 35-hour work week. That counts as part-time for us in the United States, you know. And Norway's doing well, by the way.

~Arlie Russell Hochschild

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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

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The strategy we need to pursue is one of recovering our time - to push back on our hours of work. We need to form a new alliance between feminist groups, labor unions, child advocates, progressive corporations, and the federal government insofar as it's willing to pursue a family-friendly agenda.

~Arlie Russell Hochschild

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The focus of our public discourse has been on how American companies are competing with Japanese, German, and other foreign companies. What this allows us to ignore is how each of those American companies is really in competition with the families of the workers. That's the real competition.

~Arlie Russell Hochschild

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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

Topics: Base Boston Capitalism Community Culture Faith Family Fragile Government Had Little More Nations Other Party Tea Tea Party Than Think Too Version I Think

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Most of us have jobs that require some handling of other peoples' feelings and our own, and in that sense, we are all partly flight attendants.

~Arlie Russell Hochschild

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I'm a hard worker and love my work. I have felt pulled toward work. And it's a pull I have ferociously had to counter to make room for my family.

~Arlie Russell Hochschild

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

~Arlie Russell Hochschild

Topics: Important Passing Really Sense Time Wanted You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: January 15th, 1940

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