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Afterword: Welfare State Reform, Recognition and Emotional Labor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2013

Arlie Hochschild
Arlie Hochschild*
Affiliation:
Sociology Department, University of California E-mail: ahochsch@berkeley.edu
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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.

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Themed Section on Welfare State Reform, Recognition and Emotional Labour
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Social Policy and Society , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , July 2013 , pp. 487 - 489
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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