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Emotional Labor Is a Store Clerk Confronting a Maskless Customer
By Gary Stix — 2020
The preeminent sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild discusses the control over one’s feelings needed to go to work every day during a pandemic.
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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.