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AbstractDuring the last half of the 20th century, married women with children moved into the labor force in large numbers. This change, which occurred throughout the industrialized world, dramatically altered work, family, and gender roles. Working parents today juggle demanding jobs and busy family lives and find it increasingly difficult to balance these activities. Work‐family conflict has become a pressing social issue. This article examines four areas of social science research on work and family, including: work‐family conflict, spillover, and multiple roles; work‐family policies in organizations; effects of work on family life; and cross–national research on work and family. Although much is known about all of these topics, more research is needed to address the work‐family challenges of the 21st century.

Emotional labor refers to the process by which workers are expected to manage their feelings in accordance with organizationally defined rules and guidelines. Hochschild's (1983) The Managed Heart introduced this concept and inspired an outpouring of research on this topic. This article reviews theory and research on emotional labor with a particular focus on its contributions to sociological understandings of workers and jobs. The sociological literature on emotional labor can be roughly divided into two major streams of research. These include studies of interactive work and research directly focused on emotions and their management by workers. The first uses emotional labor as a vehicle to understand the organization, structure, and social relations of service jobs, while the second focuses on individuals' efforts to express and regulate emotion and the consequences of those efforts. The concept of emotional labor has motivated a tremendous amount of research, but it has been much less helpful in providing theoretical guidance for or integration of the results generated by these bodies of work.

Résumé L'auteur propose dans cet article de mettre l'accent sur une forme particulière de travail, appelé travail émotionnel (emotion work) à travers l'étude des relations entre emplois de service et vie de famille, qui sont deux sphères qui sollicitent la reproduction sociale. Les liens entre emplois de service et vie de famille seraient à envisager de façon plus approfondie, en vue d'apprécier les chevauchements entre les deux sphères et leurs répercussions psychologiques sur les femmes. Penser les chevauchements en termes de continuité ou de discontinuité entre travail de service et vie de famille serait, pour l'auteur, insuffisant.

This article examines the contributions of feminist scholarship to the study of work, occupations, & organizations. Three themes in the literature are explored: (1) characteristics of housework & so-called women's work more generally; (2) economic inequality between men & women; & (3) structural & institutional bases of gender in the workplace. Feminist activists have shaped the direction of feminist scholarship on these themes, & this scholarship in turn has influenced feminist activists' strategies & orientations. The article concludes with a discussion of future challenges for feminist research on work. 49 References. Adapted from the source document.

Understanding the psychological consequences of emotional labor for workers has been an ongoing project among students of emotional labor. Drawing on Arlie Hochschild's pathbreaking work (1983) in this area, five major streams of qualitative & quantitative research have emerged, including (1) the experiences of workers who perform emotional labor; (2) comparisons between performers & nonperformers of emotional labor; (3) the conditions under which emotional labor may be positive or negative; (4) variations between workers that condition their responses to emotional labor; & (5) consequences of emotional labor at work for workers' private lives. Suggestions are offered for future research on the psychological consequences of emotional labor. 36 References. Adapted from the source document.