Affective Labor and Alt-Ac Careers

Affective Labor and Alt-Ac Careers
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Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : 9780700632985
ISBN-13 : 0700632980
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Book Synopsis Affective Labor and Alt-Ac Careers by : Lee Skallerup Bessette

Download or read book Affective Labor and Alt-Ac Careers written by Lee Skallerup Bessette and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2022-04-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her groundbreaking work The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling (1983), sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild described “emotional labor management” as follows: “to induce or suppress feeling in order to sustain the outward countenance that produces the proper state of mind in others.” Think of a retail worker in customer relations who must keep calm and be pleasant even when dealing with someone who is irate. While scholars have explored the affective realm when it comes to teaching and being a professor, there is less written about the experience of those working in nonteaching areas of academia—“alt-ac.” Affective Labor and Alt-Ac Careers critically examines aspects of affective and emotional labor involved in alt-ac careers in higher education. This is the first and only book of its kind that focuses on affective labor and alt-ac/staff careers in higher education. Cross-profession and cross-disciplinary, the book takes seriously the invisible labor performed at our institutions by academic staff, work that is essential for the success of our students. Research in this volume allows an opportunity for those in alt-ac careers to examine and share their affective experiences in their roles in technology, administration, research, and academic support services and as librarians, academic advisors, and writing center instructors—among others. Affective Labor and Alt-Ac Careers is the third book in Kansas’s Rethinking Careers, Rethinking Academia series, which seeks projects that lead to meaningful professional development and create lasting value for graduate students, recent and experienced PhDs, university faculty and administrators, and the growing alt-ac and post-ac community.


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