James M. Callow
Exploration of a Journal Article in Sociology
November 10/2013
Professor Lloyd
SOC100

The following article written by Darren Dixon; “I can’t put a smiley face on”: Working-Class Masculinity, Emotional Labor and Service Work in the “New Economy” explore how low-skilled men are declining to work in the service sector when evidently it is a field that it is experience a substantial growth.
This situation has little to no existent research at the time the author conducted the research, the author himself mentioned that “yet little research has explored exactly what it is about service work that is leading such men to drop out the labor market during periods of sustained service sector employment growth.” (Dixon. D. (2009)
I can’t put a smiley face on: Working-Class Masculinity, Emotional Labour and Service Work in the “New Economy” Gender, Work and Organization. Vol. 16 No. 3). The research was based on interviews with 35 unemployed low skilled men. Based on the research we can learn that low skilled males in Britain have a tendency to not succeed within a field that primarily dominated by females mainly because it interferes with what it is consider being a socially accepted behavior for a male.
The author refer to a table based on data obtain from OECD between 1984 and 1998. Society has an idea of what could be a job acceptable for either a woman or a man. Although nowadays females has been able to overcome some obstacles when it comes it to their capabilities to perform a job that was intended for a man.
For example years ago it was rare to see a police woman, a female firefighter or a female truck driver. It has also comes down to say that women would not be welders or wood workers. That man dominates the work filled and women were intended to be homemakers. It has been shown over many years that women have been intended to