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Afterword: Welfare State Reform, Recognition and Emotional Labor

2013; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 12; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s1474746413000122

1475-3073

Arlie Russell Hochschild,

Political and Economic history of UK and US

In this themed section, the editors and authors take us far beyond the usual thinking about welfare reform. How, they ask, do politicians want us to feel about welfare reform? How do we think we should feel and how do we feel about it? How does the disabled woman who has lost her government-provided caregiver and ‘hasn't been out of the house since Christmas’, feel about it? Or the man who petitions to restore his lost government aid – but fails to do so? Or the wealthy Dutch tax payer? These are are the sorts of questions that arise in the study of a changing welfare states.