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Book SynopsisWork 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 meanings of both paid and unpaid labour from the late 19th to the 21st 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 Europe, Asia and South America. Exploring the damages wrought to physical and emotional health by certain workplaces and practices, critiquing the pat
Trade ReviewThis collection makes a critical contribution to the study of work and emotions, highlighting how emotion work shapes—and is shaped by—workers, workplaces, and systems of inequality. * CHOICE *
This timely book probes not only how people have felt about work and at work, but also
why they felt the ways they did. An important update on Hochschild’s
Managed Heart, it digs into the politics of emotional labour, making a significant revision to the history of work. Essential reading. * Rob Boddice, Senior Research Fellow at HEX, Tampere University, Finland *
Working life gives rise to many different emotions – from boredom and status anxiety to joy and fulfilment – as well as providing opportunities for friendship, camaraderie, and romance. This accomplished and wide-ranging collection asks searching questions about how work has made people feel since the late nineteenth century. It takes the study of this topic to a new level. * Thomas Dixon, Professor of History, Queen Mary University of London, UK *
Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction, Agnes Arnold-Forster and Alison Moulds
Part I: Spaces of Labour 2. Emotions and Sexuality at Work: Lyon’s Corner Houses, c.1920-50, Grace Whorrall-Campbell 3. Shop Assistants, ‘Living-In’, and Emotional Health, 1880s-1930s, Alison Moulds 4. The Emotional Landscape of the Hospital Residence in Post-war Britain, Agnes Arnold-Forster 5. Negotiating Deindustrialization: Emotions and Ahmedabad’s Textile Workers, Rukmini Barua
Part II: Professional and Personal Identities 6. Education, Work, and Self-Worth in Women’s Letters to Soviet Authorities, 1924-32, Hannah Parker 7. Money, Emotions, and Domestic Service in Buenos Aires, 1950-70, Inés Pérez 8. Managing Feeling in the Academic Workplace: Gender, Emotion and Knowledge Production in a Cambridge Science Department, 1950-80, Sally Horrocks and Paul Merchant 9. Control your Feelings and be a Leader: Representations of Women, Emotions, and Career in Brazilian Media, Tatiane Leal
Part III: Emotions, Politics and Power 10. ‘Violent Emotions’: Canine Suffering, Emotional Communities, and the Emotionally-Charged Work of (Anti)Vivisection in London, New York, and Paris, Chris Pearson 11. Whistleblowing, Guilt, and Liberal Democracy, James Brown 12. The ‘System’ of Service: Emotional Labour and the Theatrical Metaphor, Jaswinder Blackwell-Pal 13. Emotional Labour and the Childcare Crisis in Neoliberal Britain, Claire English Afterword by Claire Langhamer Index
