Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power by Rose Hackman.

Highlights how service workers, teachers, nurses, and caregivers perform unpaid emotional labor.

Discusses corporate expectations for employees to be “cheerful” and emotionally available.

Explores the mental toll of performing emotional labor under low pay and job insecurity.

Shows how women in romantic relationships and families take on emotional burdens.

Discusses the “default manager” role women often assume in households.

Highlights how emotional labor inequalities strain partnerships and mental well-being.

Examines how women of color are disproportionately expected to perform emotional labor.

Explores how historical oppression, servitude, and stereotypes shape expectations.

Discusses class divides—how low-income workers perform more emotional labor for less pay.

Shows how mothers are expected to absorb emotional stress from children, partners, and society.

Highlights how working mothers juggle paid and unpaid emotional labor.

Examines the mental health effects of shouldering emotional labor alone.

Discusses burnout, exhaustion, anxiety, and depression linked to constant emotional labor.

Examines the health risks of emotional suppression and stress.

Highlights how unrecognized emotional labor leads to workplace and relationship dissatisfaction.

Encourages individuals to identify and name their emotional labor.

Provides strategies for redistributing emotional labor fairly.

Suggests workplace policies and cultural shifts to properly acknowledge emotional labor.

Calls for collective activism to bring emotional labor into mainstream economic discussions.