''The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times'', by

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 ...

, was published in 2012. It focuses on the "emotional terms of engagement" individuals develop as they increasingly outsource tasks associated with intimate life. These range from for-pay internet dating, long-distance elder care and take-out dinners to "rent-a-friends" and global commercial surrogacy.

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The Outsourced Life(NYTimes.com: May 5, 2012)
2012 non-fiction books Social sciences books Metropolitan Books books {{social-science-book-stub