A Compromised Good Life:Work and Affect among Urban Middle-Class Youth
In recent years,with the intensified employment pressures and the normalization of pre-carious living conditions,urban middle-class youth are urgently seeking stability amid fragility and inse-curity,giving rise to the emergence of new emotional adaptation mechanisms.The motivational focus on"striving"is no longer adequate to incite the younger generation to actively invest their emotions in pro-ductive and reproductive activities.Beyond the discourse of"resistance and incorporation,"the new mid-dle-class youth are reorienting their emotional investments towards smaller and more controllable life goals.Such phenomena as"civil servant fever,"engagement in light physical labor,and the act of pre-tending to work post-layoff indicate that as traditional aspirations for a good middle-class life further re-cede,they are crafting a compromised vision of the good life to adapt to and navigate the highly precari-ous and uncertain socioeconomic environment.
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