Female emotional labour in Turkish call centres: smiling voices despite low job satisfaction

dc.contributor.authorNarlı, Nilüfer
dc.contributor.authorAkdemir, Ayşegül
dc.date.accessioned2024-06-13T20:18:19Z
dc.date.available2024-06-13T20:18:19Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.departmentFakülteler, İktisadi, İdari ve Sosyal Bilimler Fakültesi, Sosyoloji Bölümü
dc.description.abstractThis article discusses Turkish women workers' experiences in Turkey's growing call centre sector, focusing on the emotional labour they perform in relation to job satisfaction and gendered work patterns within the Turkish labour market. The study uses both quantitative and qualitative data generated from six Turkish cities. Our findings demonstrate that pecuniary emotional labour is a large requirement of women employees in the call centre business, and that performing such labour under time constraints harms their well-being. Low material rewards and lack of support in their relations with customers make it even more difficult to deal with the stress of emotional labour and lowers job satisfaction. Employees' capacity to resist the negative aspects of work are largely limited by the conditions in Turkey such as high rates of unemployment, extensive employee circulation and lack of job security.
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1360780418811970
dc.identifier.endpage296
dc.identifier.issn1360-7804
dc.identifier.issue3
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-85071415190
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ2
dc.identifier.startpage278
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/1360780418811970
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11501/1328
dc.identifier.volume24
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000482442200002
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ3
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSage Publications Ltd
dc.relation.ispartofSociological Research Online
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subjectCall Centres
dc.subjectEmotional Labour
dc.subjectGender
dc.subjectWorker Resistance
dc.subjectWomen
dc.titleFemale emotional labour in Turkish call centres: smiling voices despite low job satisfaction
dc.typeArticle

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