Emotional Labour and Governmentality: Productive Power in Childcare

Autor/in	Monrad, Merete
Titel	Emotional Labour and Governmentality: Productive Power in Childcare
Quelle	In: Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 18 (2017) 3, S.281-293 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1463-9491
DOI	10.1177/1463949117731022
Schlagwörter	Governance; Public Sector; Cost Effectiveness; Child Caregivers; Well Being; Emotional Experience; Political Power; Qualitative Research; Interviews; Kindergarten; Teacher Responsibility; Coping; Resistance (Psychology); Work Attitudes; Caregiver Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Denmark + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Education; Educational policy; Financing; Steuerung; Bildung; Erziehung; Bildungspolitik; Finanzierung; Öffentlicher Sektor; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; Kosten-Nutzen-Denken; Caregiver; Caregivers; Carer; Child; Children; Kinderbetreuung; Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Politische Macht; Qualitative Forschung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Lehrverpflichtung; Bewältigung; Resistenz; Work attitude; Arbeitshaltung; Ausland; Dänemark
Abstract	This article examines the interplay between governance and cost-containment efforts in the public sector and the emotional labour and well-being of childcare workers. Care-work researchers have highlighted the complexities of power in emotional labour, such as the fact that emotional labour may simultaneously benefit the individual worker and reproduce inequalities that may be detrimental to workers' well-being. The goal of this article is to develop a theoretical understanding of power in emotional labour and to show how power is related to emotional labour not only in terms of lack of control, status and resources, but also productively in terms of the subjectivities enabled by organisations. The article draws on the works of Foucault and Rose, particularly the concepts of productive power and governmentality, and suggests that emotional labour may be conceptualised as a technology of the self. The potential benefits of governmentality and productive power in terms of connecting emotional labour to larger structures are illustrated by qualitative interviews with Danish childcare workers, which show how emotional labour may become a form of self-governance that contributes to the individualisation of work-related responsibilities. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01