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Working bodies : interactive service employment and workplace identities / Linda McDowell.

By: McDowell, Linda, 1949-Contributor(s): Wiley InterScience (Online service)Material type: Text

TextSeries: Studies in urban and social changePublisher: Chichester, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009Description: 1 online resource (ix, 272 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781444310214; 1444310216; 1444310224; 9781444310221; 1282331582; 9781282331587Subject(s): Service industries | Sexual division of labor | Human body | Social Science | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Knowledge Capital | Human body | Service industries | Sexual division of laborGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Working bodies.DDC classification: 331.7/93 LOC classification: HD9980.5 | .M3885 2009Online resources: Wiley Online Library

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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