Feelings and work in modern history : emotional labour and emotions about labour /

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Bibliographic Details
Edition:	1 Edition.
Imprint:	London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2022. ©2022
Description:	xii, 265 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	History of emotions History of emotions.
Subject:	Work -- Psychological aspects. Work environment -- Psychological aspects. Emotions. Work-life balance. Emotions. Work environment -- Psychological aspects. Work-life balance. Work -- Psychological aspects.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13154461

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Other authors / contributors:	Arnold-Forster, Agnes, editor. Moulds, Alison Sarah Elizabeth, 1989- editor.
ISBN:	9781350197183 1350197181 9781350197190 9781350197206
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Work in all its guises is a fundamental part of the human experience, and yet it is a setting where emotions rarely take centre stage. This edited collection interrogates the troubled relationship between emotion and work to shed light on the feelings and meaning of both paid and unpaid labour from the late nineteenth to the twenty-first century. Central to this book is a reappraisal of 'emotional labour', now associated with the household and 'life admin' work largely undertaken by women and which reflects and perpetuates gender inequalities. Critiquing this term, and the history of how work has made us feel, Feelings and Work in Modern History explores the changing values we have ascribed to our labour, examines the methods deployed by workplaces to manage or 'administrate' our emotions, and traces feelings through 19th, 20th and 21st century workplaces in Europe, Asia and South America. Exploring the damages wrought to physical and emotional health by certain workplaces and practices, critiquing the pathologisation of some emotional responses to work, and acknowledging the joy and meaning people derive from their labour, this book appraises the notion of a 'work-life balance', explores the changing notions of professionalism and critically engages with the history of capitalism. In doing so, it interrogates the lasting impact of some of these histories on the current and future emotional landscape of labour"--
Other form:	Online version: Feelings and work in modern history 1. New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022 9781350197190
Standard no.:	40031033216

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Agnes Arnold-Forster and Alison Moulds
Emotions and sexuality at work: Lyons Corner Houses, c. 1920-50 / Grace Whorrall-Campbell
Shop assistants, 'living-in' and emotional health, 1880s-1930s / Alison Moulds
The emotional landscape of the hospital residence in post-war Britain / Agnes Arnold-Forster
Negotiating deindustrialization: emotions and Ahmedabad's textile workers / Rukmini Barua
Education, work and self-worth in women's letters to Soviet authorities, 1924-32 / Hannah Parker
Money, emotions and domestic service in Buenos Aires, 1950-70 / Inés Pérez
Managing feeling in the academic workplace: gender, emotion and knowledge production in a Cambridge science department, 1950-80 / Sally Horrocks and Paul Merchant
Control your feelings and be a leader: representations of women, emotions and career in Brazilian media / Tatiane Leal
'Violent emotions': canine suffering, emotional communities and the emotionally charged work of (anti)vivisection in London, New York and Paris / Chris Pearson
Whistleblowing, guilt and liberal democracy / James Brown
The 'system' of service: emotional labour and the theatrical metaphor / Jaswinder Blackwell-Pal
Emotional labour and the childcare crisis in neoliberal Britain / Claire English
Afterword / Claire Langhamer.

Feelings and work in modern history : emotional labour and emotions about labour /

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