Stretching the Double Hermeneutic: A Critical Examination of Lay Meanings of ‘Emotional Labour’

This article explores how the concept of emotional labour has moved from sociological into lay discourse as a case study double hermeneutic and creep, demonstrating effect concepts can have on actors’ understanding their everyday lives. From an analysis 41 news magazine articles about labour, we identify various meanings term carries well ideologies logics that underpin them. The become tool used to frame discussions around gender inequalities in unpaid work, including housework, emotion providing support. However, Marxist underpinnings original been subverted within is largely reflective liberal feminist neoliberal ethos.