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Arlie Russell Hochschild

Arlie Russell Hochschild

How to pronounce Arlie Russell Hochschild: AR-lee HOCK-shield

Arlie Russell Hochschild Biography

Arlie Russell Hochschild is the author of many groundbreaking books, including The Second Shift, The Managed Heart, and The Time Bind as well as Strangers in Their Own Land, which became an instant bestseller and was a finalist for a National Book Award, and Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right (both from The New Press). Hochschild is professor emerita of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. She lives in Berkeley with her husband, the writer Adam Hochschild.



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