Outsourcing Ourselves Book Review
New York Times Book Review. One of the books featured is "The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times" by Arlie Russell Hochschild. The thesis is that the natural bonds of family and village or the vanished world of secure communal ties has left us investing in packaged care. The subtler costs of outsourcing, the author states is "the depersonalization of our finds with others" and for many the failure to enjoy the process of schooling our children inside the relationship. with us.
