Episode
Emotional Labor with Rachel Monroe and Ash Compton of Bad Therapist
You're Wrong About · Feb 12, 2025 · 1 h 02 min
What is "emotional labor," and why is it probably not what your boyfriend accuses you of making him do when you want him to go to Ikea with you? Psychotherapist Ash Compton and journalist Rachel Monroe are here to tell the tale of how the term sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild coined—in her 1983 book The Managed Heart—has come to mean, well, almost everything. How is the term still useful?…