The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling
in the present phase of capitalist development, the distinction between production and reproduction has become totally blurred, as work becomes the production of states of being, “affects,” and “immaterial” rather than physical objects.36
Silvia Federici • Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle
The potential for passion to be exploited—either the passion of workers who have it, or by expecting workers to perform it—was a deep-cutting finding that led to my own reckoning with my perspectives about work.
The Trouble with Passion
The aesthetic turn in the self-help literature of the late twentieth century, like the emergence of the belabored self, is in part a consequence of the changing nature of the labor market and the blurring of the boundaries between the commercial and intimate spheres.
Micki McGee • Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life
Today’s ideal workers are cheery and “flexible,” networked and net-savvy, creative and caring. They love their work but hop from job to job like serial monogamists; their hours stretch long and the line between the home and the workplace blurs. Security, the watchword of the industrial ethic, where workers spent a lifetime at one job and earned a p
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