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Feeling, women and work in the long 1950s

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posted on 2023-06-09, 00:06 authored by Claire Langhamer
The emotional and occupational cultures of Britain underwent significant shifts during the long 1950s. This article explores the intersection between the two, using a range of social survey material – including Mass Observation sources - to explore feelings about paid work, the impact of paid employment on emotional well-being, and the management of feelings in the workplace. It article suggests that women workers were consistently constructed as both inherently emotional, and therefore unsuited for the higher occupational ranks, and as talented emotional workers able to perform unremunerated emotional labour. Whilst paid employment has often been presented as the antidote to domestic discontent, experiential evidence suggests that it also often involved the migration of private emotion work into the public domain.

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Journal

Women's History Review

ISSN

0961-2025

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Issue

1

Volume

26

Page range

77-92

Department affiliated with

  • History Publications

Full text available

  • Yes

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2016-01-21

First Open Access (FOA) Date

2017-08-19

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2016-01-21

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