Sociology / Unit 7 Soc 1109 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Second Shift and Emotional Labor
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The idea
Hochschild named the second shift, the unpaid domestic work awaiting a paid worker at home, and emotional labor, the management of feeling that a job itself requires.
In practice
A nurse ending a shift goes home to cooking and childcare, having spent the day producing calm she did not feel.
Where people slip
Both are work, and both fall unevenly by gender while going uncounted in wages.
Your place on the trail
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