Emotional Labor

Karla Erickson

Karla Erickson

Grinnell College, USA

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Abstract

In 1979, Arlie Russell Hochschild developed the conceptual framework for a sociological study of emotions. She tied feeling rules, emotional display, and the demand to feign a feeling for a wage to social structure. In The Managed Heart (1983), she studied the trained management of feeling among flight attendants and bill collectors, laying the terrain to understand how workers' feelings are the terrain of struggle and site of profit in a service society.

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