A complete list of Hochschild's writings can be found on her UC Berkeley website.

Hochschild has won Guggenheim, Fulbright and Mellon fellowships, and three awards granted by the American Sociological Association--the Charles Cooley Award (for her book The Managed Heart) the Jessie Bernard Award (for The Second Shift, The Time Bind and Global Woman), and the Award for Public Understanding of Sociology (for lifetime achievement). Within sociology she is known as the founder of the sociology of emotion and, outside of it, as a "public sociologist," having contributed to the New York Times op-ed page and Book Review, Mother Jones, The American Prospect, Harper's Magazine, and TomDispatch.com on issues of the day. Hochschild has received honorary doctoral degrees from Swarthmore College (her alma mater), Aalborg University in Denmark, and the University of Oslo, Norway. Her work appears in 14 languages.

(2003a) The Commercialization of Intimate Life: Notes From Home And Work. San Francisco and Los Angeles: University of California Press. Published in Australia by the University of Australia.

(2003b) Global Woman: Nannies, Maids and Sex Workers in the New Economy, co-edited with Barbara Ehrenreich for Metropolitan Books, New York: Metropolitan Press.

(1997) The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work. New York: Metropolitan/Holt. Appears as a cover article in The New York Times Magazine, and excerpted in The Nation and Working USA. New preface for paperback American edition. Reissued in 1997 with new afterword. Recorded as audio book by Scholarly Audio Inc.

(1989) The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home, (with Anne Machung). New York: Viking Penguin. Reissued in 1997 with new afterword. Published in Great Britain by Piatkus Press.

(1983) The Managed Heart: The Commercialization of Human Feeling. Berkeley: The University of California Press. Reprinted with new afterword in 2003.

(1973) The Unexpected Community. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. Second edition (1979): Berkeley, CA: The University of California Press.

(2009) “Through an Emotions Lens.” pp. 29–38 in Theorizing Emotions: Sociological Explorations and Applications, edited by D. Hopkins, J. Kleres, H. Flam, and H. Kuzmics. New York & Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Campus Verlag.