by Arlie Russell Hochschild · tapa dura · ISBN 9780805088892
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«The Outsourced Self» is the sociological essay by Arlie Russell Hochschild, published by Metropolitan Books in hardcover (320 pages, in English).
Based on hundreds of interviews, Hochschild analyzes how love, friendship, child-rearing and other intimate spheres are outsourced to contracted services: wedding planners, surrogate mothers in India, funeral services. The most personal acts become someone else's work and the author warns of the market's advance over private life.
It was originally published on May 8, 2012. The full title is 'The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times'.
For readers of sociology and social philosophy interested in the family, care and the role of the market in everyday life.
