Emotional labour in a translocal context
Rural migrant workers in China's service sector
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3978141 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yang Shen (0000-0003-2895-3068, Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Yang Hu (0000-0003-2027-8491, Lancaster University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 521-538 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14649365.2020.1769168 |
| OpenAlex | W3016870006 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 32 |
The service industry is a major pillar of China's urban economy. Rural migrant workers form the backbone workforce in China's urban service sector. Despite much attention to the work and life of rural migrants in Chinese cities, urban employers' regulation and rural migrants' performance of emotional labour in the service sector remain understudied. Drawing on participant observation and in-depth interviews over eight years, we examine how urban employer and rural migrant workers relationally navigate intersecting emotional and migration regimes to contest, (re)produce and (re)configure rural migrants' power and status in the urban space. We develop the conceptualization of 'translocal emotional reflexivity' to elucidate multiplicated emotional regimes and subjectivities between places of origin and arrival, as well as how emotional reflexivity is mobilized to regulate, navigate and negotiate conflictual translocal emotional subjectivities. We discuss the 'institutionalized individualization' of emotional labour – a process in which an employer systematically engineers a sense of emotional agency for workers to re-imagine, re-appropriate and individualize their emotional performance to serve institutional aims – as a distinctive feature of how the regulation and performance of emotional labour has evolved over the past decade in China
Agency (philosophy · China · Conceptualization · Context (archaeology · Economic growth · Emotional labor · Geography · Negotiation · Political science · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Workforce · Emotional Labor in Professions · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |