Although there is a large body of research about emotional labour in workplace settings, such as the health professions and service industry, less known empirical processes through which taught higher education professional education. Using medical an example, discursive psychological (DP) approach used this paper to detail how feeling rules physician’s profession are constructed by students tu...

The concept of ‘communities of practice’ is widely used in workplace learning research. Whilst critiques have expanded its use in ways that claim more socially just approaches to workplace learning, a more critical analysis for change is needed. This paper draws on a case study of career guidance professionals’ work with young people, radically disturbed by new welfare-to-work policies. Their e...

Labour productivity affects food security, but quantifying this relationship has been scarce with respect to empirical literature. The Central Madagascar dataset explores the influence of labour productivity and related variables on the food security status of cassava farmers. Drawing on both theory and empirical evidence, this paper argues that fundamental effects of links between labour produ...

BACKGROUND Researchers define Emotional Labour (EL) as the effort associated with meeting the emotional requirements of the job, yet nobody has ever directly tested this effort. Building on classic stress and ego depletion theory, this study develops the Emotional Effort Scale (EEF). METHODS In Study 1, exploratory (N = 197) and confirmatory factor analysis (N = 182) were conducted with a Bri...