Stand by your man: Wives' emotion work during men's unemployment

• Main Author: RAO, Aliya Hamid
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: dual-earner; emotion work; qualitative research; unemployment; Family, Life Course, and Society; Work, Economy and Organizations
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2553; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3810/viewcontent/Rao_2017_Journal_of_Marriage_and_Family__1_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Recent research on unemployment has not sufficiently acknowledged how unemployment reverberates within families, particularly emotionally. This article uses data from more than 50 in‐depth interviews to illuminate the emotional demands that men's unemployment makes beyond the unemployed individ...