Working bodies :
McDowell, Linda, 1949-
Working bodies : interactive service employment and workplace identities / Linda McDowell. - 1 online resource (ix, 272 pages) : illustrations. - Studies in urban and social change . - Studies in urban and social change. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The rise of the service economy -- Thinking through embodiment : explaining interactive service employment -- Up close and personal : intimate work in the home -- Selling bodies I : sex work -- Selling bodies II : masculine strength and licensed violence -- Bodies in sickness and in health : care work and beauty work -- Warm bodies : doing deference in routine interactive work -- Conclusions : bodies in place.
Through a series of case studies of low-status interactive and embodied servicing work, Working Bodies examines the theoretical and empirical nature of the shift to embodied work in service-dominated economies.: 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.
9781444310214 1444310216 1444310224 9781444310221 1282331582 9781282331587
10.1002/9781444310214 doi 9786612331589
10.1002/9781444310214 Wiley InterScience http://www3.interscience.wiley.com
Service industries.
Sexual division of labor.
Human body.
Social Science.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Knowledge Capital.
Human body.
Service industries.
Sexual division of labor.
Electronic books.
HD9980.5 / .M3885 2009
331.7/93
Working bodies : interactive service employment and workplace identities / Linda McDowell. - 1 online resource (ix, 272 pages) : illustrations. - Studies in urban and social change . - Studies in urban and social change. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The rise of the service economy -- Thinking through embodiment : explaining interactive service employment -- Up close and personal : intimate work in the home -- Selling bodies I : sex work -- Selling bodies II : masculine strength and licensed violence -- Bodies in sickness and in health : care work and beauty work -- Warm bodies : doing deference in routine interactive work -- Conclusions : bodies in place.
Through a series of case studies of low-status interactive and embodied servicing work, Working Bodies examines the theoretical and empirical nature of the shift to embodied work in service-dominated economies.: 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.
9781444310214 1444310216 1444310224 9781444310221 1282331582 9781282331587
10.1002/9781444310214 doi 9786612331589
10.1002/9781444310214 Wiley InterScience http://www3.interscience.wiley.com
Service industries.
Sexual division of labor.
Human body.
Social Science.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Knowledge Capital.
Human body.
Service industries.
Sexual division of labor.
Electronic books.
HD9980.5 / .M3885 2009
331.7/93