The contradictory work environments of new economies in late modernity are associated with a range of emotional experiences, requiring diverse emotion management strategies. Late modernity offers the capacity to pursue happy, safe, rewarding, and meaningful work for the privileged few; a potential trade-off between stressful meaningful and boring precarious work for a greater number; and the prospect of non-meaningful, precarious work for many in the new economy characterised by short-term contracts, gig work, precarity, and anxiety. This study draws on data from the 2015–16 Australian Social Attitudes Survey to examine workers’ emotions in various combinations of meaningful and precarious employment, and the degree to which these emotions are managed. It finds that it is best to have secure meaningful work, worst to have highly precarious work, and slightly better to have safe but alienating than risky meaningful work, in terms of avoiding often hidden negative emotions.

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新经济中有意义的工作和不稳定的工作之间的情感权衡

现代晚期新经济的矛盾工作环境与一系列情绪体验相关，需要多样化的情绪管理策略。晚期现代性为少数特权阶级提供了追求快乐、安全、有益和有意义的工作的能力；对于更多人来说，在有压力的有意义的工作和无聊的不稳定工作之间进行潜在的权衡；在以短期合同、零工工作、不稳定和焦虑为特征的新经济中，许多人面临无意义、不稳定的工作前景。本研究利用 2015-16 年澳大利亚社会态度调查的数据来检查工人在有意义和不稳定就业的各种组合中的情绪，以及这些情绪得到控制的程度。它发现最好有稳定的有意义的工作，最糟糕的是有高度不稳定的工作，