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In the article The Managed Hand: The Commercialization of Bodies and Emotions in Korean Immigrant Owned Nail Salons written by Miliann Kang the author gave various examples of how working can have an emotional and physical impact on someone. And also how employees must act professionally in the work environment at all costs. In the article Kang goes on to explain how immigrant Korean nail artists in New York City and later lead into gendered labor. Overall, this author was written to inform people about labor conditions that have an influence over our mind and bodies. There was also a conducted study to analyze and compare three different racial and socioeconomically nail salons in diverse areas in order to “map out” the physical and emotional dimensions of body labor. …show more content…

To my understanding, I thought that emotional and physical issues at the work place impacts everyone in regardless of one’s gender in my opinion. However as Kang went on to give examples, I understood that class, gender, and race has a great influence on labor. According to this article, there are two important factors of body labor that contributes to emotional labor. Body labor explores “the embodied dimensions of emotional labor and it investigates the intersections of race, gender, and class in shaping its performance”. However, this is where I became confused because I did not understand what exactly the author meant by “embodied dimensions of emotional labor. I know from experience and understand that race, class and gender plays a big part in society though. I honestly do not think that this article had my attention as much as the last one that I wrote a reflection piece on. I could not really connect or relate to this passage as much as I did to the

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