We live in a world where work is a necessity in order to live. Karl Marx quoted and said ‘The worker puts his life into the object, but now his life no longer belongs to him but to the object’. That object he was referring to is our ‘jobs’. Our jobs somehow using our skills and emotions to get benefits from the society, in return. In the textbook ‘Working in America’ written by Amy s. Wharton, discusses different types of theory illustrated by many sociologists. However, one in particle that occurs in someone’s everyday life work experience is a theory that Arlie Hochschild argued, which is emotional labor. The concept of “emotional labor requires one to induce or suppress feelings in order to sustain the outward countenance that produces the proper state of others-in this case, the sense of being cared for in a convivial and safe place” (Wharton, pg.…show more content… In other word, emotional labor involves workers to use their emotions to generate feelings in others in order to produce profits for the employers. Because of those actions occurring, it results in society alienated their real emotions from their surroundings. When experiencing my first job in a Day Care Center, I did not think Hochschild theory on emotional labor would be accurate towards the way we begin to feel, when a situations happen in the work field. Majority of the time, I had to hide my emotions towards the children because I did not want angry parents arriving the next morning, because it would destroy the company reputation. When this happens, some people begin to alienate themselves from their surroundings, because their true opinion or actions in their work force starts to be irrelevant. Moreover, emotional labor and alienation can relate to many other situations that society experience in their work place, another one being gender roles and gender
