Emotional work

• Bull

  • 'Economy of emotion' in families
  • Women take responsibility for emotional work of husband and managing emotions
  • Running economy is their responsibility
• Duncombe and Marsden


  Triple shift = domestic labour, emotional work in family and take care of kids
• Oakley

  • Role of housewife is socially constructed due to social changes of industrial revolution
  • Middle class = had female servants
  • Working class = women did work themselves