Learning the post-Fordist feeling rules

Young women's work orientations and negotiations of the work ethic

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3259254
AutoresEmma Lamberg (0000-0001-8717-1125, University of Turku, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen70
Número5
Páginas935-950
Fecha de publicación2022-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00380261221091009
OpenAlexW4280591374
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas27

Even though flexibility, insecurity and precarity characterise much of today's work, the promise of self-realisation through work remains as powerful as ever. Following Weeks' work on the post-Fordist work ethic and Hochschild's research on feeling rules, this article analyses how young women negotiate the post-Fordist work ethic and its emotional obligations. Drawing on interviews with 39 young women studying in the care and media fields in Finland, the article proposes the conceptualisation of post-Fordist feeling rules as a way to capture how young women become workers by managing contemporary work's emotional requirements and contradictions. This article adds to the sociology of youth and labour in the post-Fordist era by foregrounding the role of feelings in the production of youth as workers and unpacking the post-Fordist work ethic's gendered, industry-specific and emotional dimensions

Aesthetics · Emptiness · Epistemology · Feeling · Flexibility (engineering) · Fordism · Management · Narrative · Negotiation · Precarious work · Precarity · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics) · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Labor Movements and Unions · Psychology · Social Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics