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Question: Are similar situations cropping up in other post-industrial countries like Japan or Germany? Do people there prefer work over home as well?
Arlie Russell Hochschild responds:
Some industrial countries are more time-bound than we are, some less. Culture plays a big part. In Japan, many workplaces make work a "home" and require long hours - for men. Many Japanese women are left to tend the home fires pretty much on their own. As more Japanese women join the labor force, a nascent Japanese women's movement has begun to call into question the long hours men work. And there is now a small but active movement led by the families of men who've died of "over work" and against the companies for which these men worked.
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