TY  - BOOK
AU  - McDowell,Linda
ED  - Wiley InterScience (Online service)
TI  - Working bodies: interactive service employment and workplace identities 
T2  - Studies in urban and social change
SN  - 9781444310214
AV  - HD9980.5 .M3885 2009
U1  - 331.7/93 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Chichester, UK, Malden, MA
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
KW  - Service industries
KW  - Sexual division of labor
KW  - Human body
KW  - Social Science
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Knowledge Capital
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444310214
ER  -