Putting on a good face: An examination of the emotional and aesthetic roots of presentational labour

Economic and Industrial Democracy

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 145-158

  Sheane, Susan D ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aesthetic labour; aesthetic literacy; aesthetic work; emotional labour; emotional literacy; emotional work; hairstylists; impression management; presentational labour; self presentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856462479     PISSN: 0143831X     EISSN: 14617099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0143831X11427588     Document Type: Article

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