‘Wearing It All with a Smile’: Emotional Labour in the Lives of Mothers and Disabled Children

  • Katherine Runswick-Cole
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Abstract

This chapter explores emotional labour in the lives of mothers and disabled children. It draws on data from a recently completed research project, ‘Does Every Child Matter, post-Blair? The interconnections of disabled childhoods’, a two-year project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (http//post-blair.posterous.com).

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Disable Child Emotional Labour Cultural Performance Flight Attendant Display Rule 
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