TY - JOUR
T1 - Les émotions au travail
T2 - Le cas des assistantes juridiques
AU - Pierce, Jennifer L.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - Despite the invisibility of emotional labor among paralegals, this dimension of work has significant consequences for the reproduction of the labor process in the large bureaucratic firm and for the psychological well-being of paralegals. These legal workers function to support and maintain the emotional stability of the lawyers for whom they work through deferential treatment and care taking. By affirming the status of lawyers, paralegals also reproduce gender relations in the law firm. Most attorneys who receive care taking and support are men, and the majority of the legal assistants who provide these emotional services are women. In this way, the emotional labor required of paralegals serves to reproduce the sex-segregated structure of law firms.
AB - Despite the invisibility of emotional labor among paralegals, this dimension of work has significant consequences for the reproduction of the labor process in the large bureaucratic firm and for the psychological well-being of paralegals. These legal workers function to support and maintain the emotional stability of the lawyers for whom they work through deferential treatment and care taking. By affirming the status of lawyers, paralegals also reproduce gender relations in the law firm. Most attorneys who receive care taking and support are men, and the majority of the legal assistants who provide these emotional services are women. In this way, the emotional labor required of paralegals serves to reproduce the sex-segregated structure of law firms.
KW - Gender relations
KW - Juridical assistants
KW - Management of emotions at work
KW - Sociology of emotions
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U2 - 10.3917/trav.009.0051
DO - 10.3917/trav.009.0051
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:67650564233
SN - 1620-5340
VL - 9
SP - 51
EP - 72
JO - Travailler
JF - Travailler
IS - 1
ER -