Allison J Pugh

The Tumbleweed Society

Working and Caring in an Age of Insecurity

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how we navigate questions of commitment and flexibility at work and at home in a world where insecurity has become the norm. How do people today, especially parents, think and talk about what we owe each other on the job and in intimate relationships-with partners, children, and others-when so much is perpetually up in the air?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 144mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 350g
• ISBN-13: 9780190868666
• ISBN-10: 019086866X
• Artikelnr.: 50082009

Autorenporträt

Allison J. Pugh is Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. Her book Longing and Belonging: Parents, Children, and Consumer Culture won the William J. Goode Book Award from the American Sociological Association Section on Sociology of the Family, and the Distinguished Contribution Award from the ASA Section on Children and Youth.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Managing the Unrequited Contract
Chapter 3: New Economy Winners and the Moral Wall
Chapter 4: The Imperative of Detachment
Chapter 5: The Knots of Duty
Chapter 6: The Giving Trees
Chapter 7: The Stable Oasis
Chapter 8: Duty and the Flexible Child
Chapter 9: The Coral Society
Epilogue
Appendix A: Commitment Talk
Acknowledgements
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index