The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home

The Story

An updated edition of a standard in its field that remains relevant more than thirty years after its original publication. Over thirty years ago, sociologist and University of California, Berkeley professor Arlie Hochschild set off a tidal wave of conversation and controversy with her bestselling book, The Second Shift. Hochschild's examination of life in dual-career housholds finds that, factoring in paid work, child care, and housework, working mothers put in one month of labor more than their spouses do every year. Updated for a workforce that is now half female, this edition 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.

A paperback edition from 2012 of The Second Shift by Arlie Hochschild; Anne Machung. It runs to 352 pages, in very good condition. We hold one copy, so once it is gone it is gone. Shelved under Family & Relationships. Wrapped with care for collectors and shipped from Kuwait.