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Emotional Labor Since

The Managed Heart

Bibliographic Data

ID9748931
AuthorsRonnie J Steinberg (Vanderbilt University, corresponding author), Deborah M Figart (0009-0003-2176-3437, Richard Stockton College)
Year1999
Volume561
Issue1
Pages8-26
Publication date1999-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0002716299561001001
OpenAlexW4230970406
LanguageEN
Citations received145
References cited30

The phrase "emotional labor" was coined by sociologist Arlie Hochschild in 1983 in her classic book, The Managed Heart. Jobs requiring emotional labor typically necessitate contact with other people external to or within the organization, usually involving face-to-face or voice-to-voice contact, especially in service work. In this article, the authors summarize Hochschild's pathbreaking work and assess the state of the current multi- and interdisciplinary literature on emotional labor. They distinguish between two interrelated areas of research on emotional labor. The first area involves predominantly, though not exclusively, qualitative case studies of employees at workplaces in the service sector. A second set of studies, primarily quantitative, investigates the link between emotional labor at home, in different jobs, or in nurturing activities (a specific form of emotional labor) and its consequences for individual employees' job satisfaction, productivity, and pay

Business · Economic growth · Economics · Emotional labor · Face (sociological concept · Job satisfaction · Labor relations · Labour economics · Phrase · Political science · Productivity · Public relations · Set (abstract data type · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Emotional Labor in Professions · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Psychology · Social Psychology

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Unique citing works109
Citations per year5,58
Citation span2000 - 2026 (27)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedYes
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