Invisible Labor and Hidden Work

Weidhaas, Allison

doi:10.1002/9781118955567.wbieoc095

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“…Specifically, that these other mothers help to restore equity in romantic dyads by providing empathy and support as communicative tools for social justice in romantic dyads. In her review of invisible labor, Weidhaas (2017) asserted that those who perform invisible labor do desire recognition for their efforts. Much of what our participants noted as negatives in their relationships with their SOs were due to what Clark and Grote (1998) would consider unintentional costs .…”

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“The Weight of Our Household Rests on My Shoulders”: Inequity in Family Work

DeGroot

Vik

2019

Journal of Family Issues

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This study explores gendered work imbalance, particularly pertaining to parenthood, and posits a social justice perspective with equity theory. Participants for this study were mothers who disclosed their lived experiences with family workload and inequity in an online, open-ended survey. Findings reinforce previous literature, indicating that there is an imbalance in equity between heterosexual romantic partners, and that mothers are overworked and undervalued, as the invisible work completed daily creates an imbalance in the relationship. This imbalance has a negative impact on the relationship and can have long-term consequences when no means of restoring equity is in sight.

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“The Weight of Our Household Rests on My Shoulders”: Inequity in Family Work

DeGroot

Vik

2019

Journal of Family Issues

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“…The number of—what Weick would call—double-interacts I worked through was mind-boggling in itself. There is also the invisible labor (Weidhaas, 2017) of becoming my students’ de facto IT help desk. I easily spend 12 hours, 7 days a week in this chair.…”

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Collective Sensemaking Around COVID-19: Experiences, Concerns, and Agendas for our Rapidly Changing Organizational Lives

Stephens

Jahn

Fox

et al. 2020

Management Communication Quarterly

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Uncertainty is at the forefront of many crises, disasters, and emergencies, and the COVID-19 pandemic is no different in this regard. In this forum, we, as a group of organizational communication scholars currently living in North America, engage in sensemaking and sensegiving around this pandemic to help process and share some of the academic uncertainties and opportunities relevant to organizational scholars. We begin by reflexively making sense of our own experiences with adjusting to new ways of working during the onset of the pandemic, including uncomfortable realizations around privilege, positionality, race, and ethnicity. We then discuss key concerns about how organizations and organizing practices are responding to this extreme uncertainty. Finally, we offer thoughts on the future of work and organizing informed by COVID-19, along with a list of research practice considerations and potentially generative research questions. Thus, this forum invites you to reflect on your own experiences and suggests future directions for research amidst and after a cosmology event.

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“…The pandemic also revealed the numerous ways mothers carry out invisible labor on a daily basis-Invisible labor is defined as "work that frequently receives little or no recognition or monetary reward" (Weidhaas, 2017). Recent reports share findings on the struggles mothers, especially working mothers, have encountered during the period of stay home orders (e.g.…”

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Child care and COVID: Precarious communities in distanced times

Swadener

Peters

Bentley

et al. 2020

Global Studies of Childhood

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Drawing from an analysis of responses to COVID affecting the ECCE sector in the US, including the narratives of early childhood educators, we engage with several questions. These include: How is care work with children constructed and affected by COVID-19? How might current responses and policies be understood through the lens of social citizenship and the collective/the individual? How do these issues reflect the precarity of the ECCE sector? How are embodied and emotional aspects of care work manifesting in early educator/caregiver lives in the time of the pandemic? Who is caring for the caregivers and what care may be needed? How can we re-imagine the care of ourselves, and in relation to an ethics of care for the other?

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Invisible Labor and Hidden Work

Cited by 7 publications

References 13 publications

“The Weight of Our Household Rests on My Shoulders”: Inequity in Family Work

“The Weight of Our Household Rests on My Shoulders”: Inequity in Family Work

Collective Sensemaking Around COVID-19: Experiences, Concerns, and Agendas for our Rapidly Changing Organizational Lives

Child care and COVID: Precarious communities in distanced times

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