Arlie Russell Hochschild Quote

Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality. Or the overworker runs herself ragged in a race for attention.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality. Or the overworker runs herself ragged in a race for attention.

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About Arlie Russell Hochschild

Arlie Russell Hochschild (; born January 15, 1940) is an American professor emeritus of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley and writer. Hochschild has long focused on the human emotions that underlie moral beliefs, practices, and social life generally. She is the author of ten books including the forthcoming Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame and the Rise of the Right (The New Press, Sept 10, 2024), a follow-up to her last book,"Strangers in Their Own Land; Anger and Mourning on the American Right., a New York Times Bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award. In these and other books, she continues the sociological tradition of C. Wright Mills by drawing links between private troubles and public issues. In drawing this link, she has tried to illuminate the ways we recognize, attend to, appraise, evoke and suppress-- that is to say, manage-- emotion. She has applied this focus to the family, to work and to politics. Her works have been translated into 17 languages (World Affairs). She is also the author of a children's book titled Coleen The Question Girl, illustrated by Gail Ashby.