Abstract
In Chaps. 5 and 6, I discussed how these employees, draw on knowledge of gender and class as a way of developing a feel for the game at work. So far ,then, I have said that playing the game for these participants means learning what aspects of class and gender help them fit in, in this workplace. I have tried to show that this kind of game-playing can sometimes mean that an employee might try to put on more desirable aspects of a classed and gendered identity. Playing the game can also mean hiding aspects of one’s self that could jeopardize fitting in at work. I want to now develop this argument by exploring the role of emotion work in this sort of game-playing.
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That is, management of emotion that is exchanged for a wage.
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Addison, M. (2016). (Not) Fitting in and Emotion Work. In: Social Games and Identity in the Higher Education Workplace. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51803-3_7
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