The Second Shift: Working Families and the Revolution at Home

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First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin Inc. 1989

Edition with a new introduction published in Penguin Books 2003

This edition with a new preface published 2012

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA

Hochschild, Arlie Russell, 1940-

The second shift : working families and the revolution at home / Arlie Hochschild, with Anne Machung.

p. cm.

Rev. ed. of: The second shift : working parents and the revolution at home. 1989.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN: 9781101575512

1. Dual-career families—United States. 2. Dual-career families—United States—Case studies. 3. Sex role—United States. 4. Working mothers—United States.

I. Machung, Anne. II. Title.

HQ536.H63 2012

306.872–dc23 2011043651

Printed in the United States of America

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