emotional labor
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.41 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of managing feelings and displaying certain expressions in order to meet the requirements of a job.
Uncountable
noun
The display and management of emotion in non-professional, interpersonal relationships; emotion work.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "It was that “pinch,” or conflict, between such feelings and the pilot’s Call for authenticity that led me to write down in my own notebook, "emotional labor.""
- "Emotional labor does not observe conventional distinctions between types of jobs. By my estimate, roughly one-third of American workers today have jobs that subject them to substantial demands for emotional labor."
- "Another way to put it is that these jobs require emotional labour, not manual labour. And women, even unskilled women, are much better at emotional labour than men are."
- "Further, theory on emotional labor—or organizationally mandated “rules” requiring employees to engage in “surface acting, deep acting, and the expression of spontaneous and genuine emotion” […] suggests that such emotional expectations create pressure to identify with one's work role."
- "In emotional labor jobs (Hochschild 1983), emotional displays are a matter of survival rather than personal choice, as job security and pay are dependent on them."
- "The divide in who does what when it comes to housework persists because of our gendered expectation for women to perform emotional labor. We are the ones who decide whether to do a task ourselves or to delegate it to someone else, and doing physical labor is often the easier road."