Forthcoming: September 10, 2024

For all the efforts to understand the state of American politics and the blue/red divide, we've ignored what economic and cultural loss can do to an overlooked and powerful human feeling: pride. In Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right (The New Press), Arlie Russell Hochschild argues that Donald Trump has turned lost pride into stolen pride and channeled the pain of loss and shame into blame. She describes the emotional narrative through which Trump appears to "liberate" his followers even as he reveals his intention to undermine democracy "on day one."

Hochschild's research drew her to Pike County in the heart of Appalachia, within the whitest and second-poorest congressional district in the nation, where its residents faced a perfect storm. The county was reeling: coal jobs had left, crushing poverty persisted, and a deadly drug crisis struck the region more powerfully than anywhere else in the nation. Although Pike County had been in the political center thirty years ago, by 2016, 80 percent of the district's population voted for Donald Trump. Hochschild's brilliant exploration of how the town reacted to a 2017 white nationalist march through town—a rehearsal for the deadly Unite the Right march that would take place in Charlottesville, Virginia, just fourth months later—takes us deep inside a community that defies stereotypes.

Stolen Pride offers an original contribution to the national conversation on bridging divides and healing our nation.

In Strangers in Their Own Land , the renowned sociologist Arlie Hochschild embarks on a thought-provoking journey from her liberal hometown of Berkeley, California, deep into Louisiana bayou country—a stronghold of the conservative right. As she gets to know people who strongly oppose many of the ideas she famously champions, Hochschild nevertheless finds common ground and quickly warms to the people she meets, among them a Tea Party activist whose town has been swallowed by a sinkhole caused by a drilling accident—people whose concerns are actually ones that all Americans share: the desire for community, the embrace of family, and hopes for their children.

Strangers in Their Own Land goes beyond the commonplace liberal idea that these are people who have been duped into voting against their own interests. Instead Hochschild finds lives ripped apart by stagnant wages, a loss of home, an elusive American dream—and political choices and views that make sense in the context of their lives. Hochschild draws on her expert knowledge of the sociology of emotion to help us understand what it feels like to live in "red" America. Along the way she finds answers to one of the crucial questions of contemporary American politics: Why do the people who would seem to benefit most from "liberal" government intervention abhor the very idea?

"Coleen was born with a question in her mouth..." This children's book was first published in 1974 when Arlie Hochschild, sociologist and author, was the mother of a three year old. In 2016 it was rewritten, newly illustrated, and republished by Invisible Spaces of Parenthood. 

In this collection of thirteen essays, Arlie Russell Hochschild explores the impact of social forces on the emotional side of intimate life.
 

The family has long been a haven in a heartless world, the one place immune to market forces and economic calculations. But here, drawing on hundreds of interviews, Hochschild reveals a world in which the most intuitive and emotional of human acts have become work for hire, often transformed into packaged expertise to be sold back to confused, harried Americans.

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This book gathers some of Hochschild's most important and widely read articles in one place together with new work. Each chapter reflects the complex negotiations we make day to day to juggle the conflicting demands of love and work. Taken together, they are a compelling, often startling, look at how our everyday lives are shaped by modern capitalism. 

Co-edited with Barbara Ehrenreich, this volume explores the mass labor migration of women around the globe, easing a "care deficit" in rich countries, while creating one back home.

When The Time Bind was first published in 1997, it was hailed as the decade's most influential study of our work/family crisis. As she shows in her new introduction, the borders between family and work have since become even more permeable. The Time Bind stands as an increasingly important warning about the way we live and work.

Over thirty years ago, 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 households 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 father we all still must go.

In private life, we try to induce or suppress love, envy, and anger through deep acting or "emotion work," just as we manage our outer expressions of feeling through surface acting. But what occurs when emotion work and feeling rules are introduced into the public world of work? Here Arlie Russell Hochschild closely examines two groups of public-contact workers: flight attendants and bill collectors. Hochschild argues that we have not appreciated the occupational hazard of emotional labor—estrangement from what one actually feels, the very means through which we are connected to those around us.

In this book, Arlie Hochschild paints an ethnographic portrait of the older residents of a low-income housing project. Through descriptions of their vibrant community—a mutual aid society, a source of jobs, an audience, a sanctuary, and a subculture with its own customs, gossip and humor—Hochschild suggests an alternative to both the quietly devastating isolation of old age, and private and individual solutions to what is a public and collective problem.