Connective Labor as Emotional Vocabulary: Inequality, Mutuality, and the Politics of Feelings in Care-Work.
Care-work research has been largely dominated by two accounts of emotions in care: as love/attachment or as "emotional labor." These two accounts have led scholars to focus on questions of authenticity and motive—for example, how much do caregivers really feel for their charges?—rather than question...
| Publicado en: | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society Vol. 49; no. 1; pp. 141 - 165 |
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University of Chicago Press
Autumn2023
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