Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: The second shift, coined in 1989 by Arlie Hochschild, highlights the complexity of women"s roles as mothers, wives, and working women.According to Hochschild, working women perform a first shift in the paid labor force and a second shift of unpaid labor in their households.This research critiques Hochschild"s second shift concept from a critical sociological perspective.The authors argue that because Hochschild"s conceptualization of second shift fails to engage a comparative historical analysis, her work dismisses, devalues and omits marginalized groups of working women, who have throughout history engaged unpaid, underpaid, involuntary, devalued, and/or overlapping never ending shifts of labor long before middle-class White women joined the paid labor force.
DOI: 10.15640/jssw.v7n1a4
Authors: Carla D. Brailey, Brittany C. Slatton
Language: English
Subfield: Safety Research
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2946869185