Shows how to search for the sacred dimension of work and find life's meaning in the process.

One night while everyone is sleeping, a little boy watches his paper mouse save a cat from an angry dog.

"Work in all its guises is a fundamental part of the human experience, and yet it is a setting where emotions rarely take centre stage. This edited collection interrogates the troubled relationship between emotion and work to shed light on the feelings and meaning of both paid and unpaid labour from the late nineteenth to the twenty-first century. Central to this book is a reappraisal of 'emotional labour', now associated with the household and 'life...