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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

情绪劳动

Pronunciation / Transliteration: qíng xù láo dòng

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
emotional labor/ɪˈmoʊʃənəl ˈleɪbər/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"服务行业的工作人员通常需要付出大量的情绪劳动。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    The effort to control and produce appropriate feelings and expressions as part of one's job or within social relationships, often resulting in stress or burnout.

    "Flight attendants perform a significant amount of emotional labor to ensure passengers feel safe and welcome."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Coined by sociologist Arlie Hochschild in her 1983 book 'The Managed Heart', originally referring to the management of feeling to create a publicly observable facial and bodily display within the workplace.

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