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The concept of work can be understood as a purposeful human activity, which is focused on the processing of natural goods, items and/or information by using tools to meet tangible and intangible needs. Work is the usage of instruments to support the existence of humankind and the social world. Domestic work refers to work of domestic help, which applies to employees, usually individuals who work and often live in the house of the employer. Emotional labor takes place in the public sphere as a social and economic exchange sold for wages during interactions with customers or coworkers. Emotional labor requires certain emotions to be displayed and expressed in line with organizational aims.

Refutes current political rhetoric that vilifies relatively effective programs such as the Comprehensive Employment & Training Act (CETA). CETA served millions of Americans from 1974 to 1983 & succeeded in placing women in job environments where real, transferable skills were acquired. Right-wing politicians, while recognizing the program's accomplishments, criticized it for not making greater gains & for serving the more educated segment of the welfare base, with both criticisms part of an effort to defund the Left. Public job training programs, through often innovative programs, should create jobs & provide education & training that respect the individual, offer voluntary participation, & qualify participants for labor market wages (Rose 1995). New reforms, however, supplant such programs with a limited "rapid attachment" design that forces workers into low-end jobs that lack benefits & long-term solutions. L. A. Hoffman

Emotion work is usually defined as the psychological processes necessary to regulate emotions that are desired in specific private life conditions. When controlling the intensity and quality of the individual's feelings is related to the public sphere and undertaken for reasons associated with paid work it is called emotional labor. Such employment occurs in contemporary service economies where the provision of services is often related to "selling feelings," which is mainly performed by women.