The emotions of middle class towards the “labor”
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Human emotions are not merely the individualized feelings that are separated from each other. At a particular time, each social class weave a web of emotion linking its member to feel things that exist around them in the same direction to organize economic, social, and political relations. This article aims to consider the emotions of middle class towards the “labor”, which have not been seriously considered by the academic community before,
in order to gain a more precise understanding of the social relationships that have always suppressed the workers.
The study found that middle-class emotion towards the labor engraved in Thai society was formed by an existed system of values that were reproduced over time. This value system can be divided into three dimensions. The value in terms of success or failure in life that arising from personal good/bad, the value of cleanliness, hygiene and physical appearance, and the value of labor in economics. Such value system makes the middle class perceive and feel that the labor is deviant from the middle-class value system. This kind of laborness becomes the embedded emotional framework in middle class mind perceiving the labor as inferior in all aspects and deserved to be in the lower class of society
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