TY - JOUR
T1 - The lady vanishes: women's work and affective labour
AU - Bolton, S.C.
N1 - Also presented at Gender and Emotions Research Seminar, British Academy of Management, London, 7 May 2008 This is a variant record V: 27289
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Recently a new twist to the emotion work/ emotional labour debate has been introduced in the shape of a conceptual device known as 'affective labour' (Hardt and Negri, 2000, 2005; Lazaratto 2004). The argument presented here suggests that there are some tragic consequences of thinking about emotion work as affective labour and in terms of immaterial labour. This is because, fundamentally, it overlooks the fact emotion work is hard and productive work that is often unrewarded and unrecognised because of its association with the domestic sphere - in effect, women disappear from view as emotional labourers.
AB - Recently a new twist to the emotion work/ emotional labour debate has been introduced in the shape of a conceptual device known as 'affective labour' (Hardt and Negri, 2000, 2005; Lazaratto 2004). The argument presented here suggests that there are some tragic consequences of thinking about emotion work as affective labour and in terms of immaterial labour. This is because, fundamentally, it overlooks the fact emotion work is hard and productive work that is often unrewarded and unrecognised because of its association with the domestic sphere - in effect, women disappear from view as emotional labourers.
KW - emotion work
KW - emotional labour
KW - affective labour
KW - women's work
KW - formative
KW - management
UR - http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/27289/
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJWOE.2009.025400
U2 - 10.1504/IJWOE.2009.025400
DO - 10.1504/IJWOE.2009.025400
M3 - Article
VL - 3
SP - 72
EP - 80
JO - International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion
JF - International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion
SN - 1740-8938
IS - 1
ER -