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This chapter explores emotional labour in the lives of mothers and disabled children. It draws on data from a recently completed research project, ‘Does Every Child Matter, post-Blair? The interconnections of disabled childhoods’, a two-year project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (http//post-blair.posterous.com).
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Runswick-Cole, K. (2013). ‘Wearing It All with a Smile’: Emotional Labour in the Lives of Mothers and Disabled Children. In: Curran, T., Runswick-Cole, K. (eds) Disabled Children’s Childhood Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137008220_9
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