Working Bodies Interactive Service Employment and Workplace Identities IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
Auteur : McDowell Linda
- Defines ?body work? to include the work by service sector employees on their own bodies and on the bodies of others
- Sets UK case studies in the context of global patterns of economic change
- Explores the consequences of growing polarization in the service sector
- Draws on geography, sociology, anthropology, labour market studies, and feminist scholarship
List of Illustrations vi
Series Editors’ Preface vii
Preface and Acknowledgements viii
1 Service Employment and the Commoditization of the Body 1
Part I Locating Service Work 23
2 The Rise of the Service Economy 25
3 Thinking Through Embodiment: Explaining Interactive Service Employment 49
Part II High-Touch Servicing Work in Private and Public Spaces 77
4 Up Close and Personal: Intimate Work in the Home 79
5 Selling Bodies I: Sex Work 101
6 Selling Bodies II: Masculine Strength and Licensed Violence 129
Part III High-Touch Servicing Work in Specialist Spaces 159
7 Bodies in Sickness and in Health: Care Work and Beauty Work 161
8 Warm Bodies: Doing Deference in Routine Interactive Work 191
9 Conclusions: Bodies in Place 212
References 229
Index 256
Date de parution : 10-2009
Ouvrage de 284 p.
15.5x23.1 cm
Date de parution : 10-2009
Ouvrage de 288 p.
16x23.7 cm
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Mots-clés :
Embodiment; service economy; sex work; gender; employment; body work