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The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times
First edition
AuthorArlie Russell Hochschild
LanguageEnglish
GenreNonfiction social science
PublisherMetropolitan Books
Publication date
2012
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint
ISBN9780805088892

The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times, by Arlie Russell Hochschild, was published in 2012. It focuses on the: "emotional terms of engagement" individuals develop as they increasingly outsource tasks associated with intimate life. These range from for-pay internet dating, long-distance elder care and take-out dinners to "rent-a-friends" and global commercial surrogacy.

References

  1. ^ Hochschild, Arlie (2012). The Outsourced Self. Metropolitan Books.

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