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Arlie Russell Hochschild Talks About the Outsourced Self

Is there nothing we’re willing to do for ourselves anymore-cook our meals, raise our kids, clean our homes? Why are we so desperate to offload everything? Arlie Russell Hochschild, author of The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times, thinks we’re losing something important, and she makes her case-personally, not via an assistant-to Zócalo editor T.A. Frank in three minutes or less.


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