If changes to the material structures of work have ushered us into a “new economy,” cultural scholars assume that there must also be changes to ideological structures of work. Extant scholarship on precarious professionals and on the role of emotions in 21^st‐century work find that passion may be an important cultural component of white‐collar work in the new economy. Using data from engineers, nurses, and graphic designers who work in either less precarious or more precarious contexts, this paper contributes the first emic definition of work passion as the experiences of attraction, enjoyment, motivation, and perseverance. Because I find overwhelming adherence and conceptual consistency among professionals in my sample, I argue that the pursuit of work passion constitutes a coherent ideology of work, which I call the passion paradigm. I argue that the passion paradigm is compatible with and protects structures of work in the new economy because its logic of hyper individualism motivates workers to work hard and work well as a practice of self‐care, shifting the locus of critique further away from institutions and more toward the self. Adherence to and institutionalization of the passion paradigm may have myriad consequences, opening up broad areas of future research.

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激情范式：“坚持做自己喜欢的事”的思想的专业依从和后果

如果工作的物质结构的变化将我们引入“新经济”，文化学者认为工作的意识形态结构也必须发生变化。现有的关于不稳定专业人员和情绪在21^世纪的作用的奖学金百年的工作发现，激情可能是新经济中白领工作的重要文化成分。利用来自在较不稳定或较不稳定环境中工作的工程师，护士和图形设计师的数据，本文将工作激情的第一个主观定义定义为吸引力，享受，动力和毅力的经历。因为我在样本中发现专业人员之间存在压倒性的坚持和观念上的一致性，所以我认为追求工作激情构成了一个连贯的工作意识形态，我称之为激情范式。我认为，激情范式与新经济中的工作结构兼容并保护新的经济结构，因为它的超个人主义逻辑激发了工人努力工作和良好地自我照顾的习惯，批判的根源更远离制度，更多地转向自我。对激情范式的坚持和制度化可能产生无数后果，从而为未来的研究开辟了广阔的领域。