The Outsourced Self

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.^[1] These range from for-pay internet dating, long-distance elder care and take-out dinners to "rent-a-friends" and global commercial surrogacy.

The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times

First edition
Author	Arlie Russell Hochschild
Language	English
Genre	Nonfiction social science
Publisher	Metropolitan Books
Publication date	2012
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print
ISBN	9780805088892