Publisher's Synopsis
From the work” it takes to keep personal life personal, put feeling into work, and empathize with others; to the cultural blur” between market and home; the effect of a social class gap on family wellbeing; and the movement of care workers around the globe, Hochschild raises deep questions about the modern age. In an eponymous essay, she even points towards a possible future in which a person asking How’s the family?” hears the proud answer, Couldn’t be better.”