The author's of the award-winning Emotional Labor now go inside the stressful world of suicide, rape, and domestic hotline workers, EMTs, triage nurses, and agency/deparment spokespersons, to provide powerful insights into how emotional labor is actually exerted by public servants who face the...

1. Introduction: Why Emotional Labor Matters in Public Service -- 2. Thinking Globally About the Public Service Work Experience -- 3: Trending Interconnectedness: The Value of Comparative Analysis -- 4. Understanding Emotional Labor at the Individual Level -- 5. Understanding Emotional Labor at...

The Palgrave Handbook of Global Perspectives on Emotional Labor in Public Service challenges traditional public administration theory and its disavowal of the emotive component to public service delivery. Providing a comprehensive and comparative overview of the current research in this...