Author

Books by Arlie Russell Hochschild

Arlie Russell Hochschild is a professor emerita of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of several influential books on emotion, work, and American life, including The Managed Heart and The Second Shift. Strangers in Their Own Land, published in 2016, was a finalist for the National Book Award and was widely read as a key text for understanding the politics of rural and working-class white America. She has spent decades studying the intersection of emotion and social structure, and her fieldwork in Louisiana for this book took five years.