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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459234003321

Autore

Brooks Ann <1952-, >

Titolo

Gender, emotions and labour markets : Asian and Western perspectives / / Ann Brooks and Theresa Devasahayam

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-84817-7

1-136-84818-5

1-283-04169-3

9786613041692

0-203-83413-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (156 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in social and political thought ; ; 72

Altri autori (Persone)

DevasahayamTheresa W

Disciplina

331.4095

Soggetti

Sex discrimination in employment - Asia

Women foreign workers - Asia - Social conditions

Women migrant labor - Asia - Social conditions

Women - Employment - Asia

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contemporary theorizing on emotions and emotional labour / Ann Brooks -- Social and cultural context of gender in Asia / Theresa Devasahayam -- Globalization, labour force participation and the gender gap / Theresa Devasahayam -- Changing patterns of caregiving and emotional labour in Asia / Theresa Devasahayam and Ann Brooks -- Globalization, the "feminization of migration" and emotional labour / Theresa Devasahayam -- Human rights and female migrant labour in Asia / Theresa Devasahayam -- Women executives and emotional labour : the work-life balance of professional women in the Asia-Pacific and the U.S. / Ann Brooks -- Servicing high-end professional migrant and local populations : female migrant labour as a transnational community / Ann Brooks -- Men masculinity and emotional labour / Ann Brooks.

Sommario/riassunto

Concepts of emotion and emotional labour have largely been defined in



European and American terms and according to Euro-American sensibilities with little attention given to the question of whether emotional work or emotional labour is different globally. In particular little has been written about the issue of what defines emotions and emotional labour in public work contexts and how it is configured in different cultural contexts. Gender, Emotions and Labour Markets considers how, and in what ways, emotional labour characterises formal and informal work environments in b

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Record Nr.

UNISA996384351603316

Autore

Pond Edward <d. 1629.>

Titolo

Pond, an almanack for the yeare of our Lord God 1657 [[electronic resource] ] : being the first after bissextile or leap-yeare and from the worlds creation ... 5661 : whereunto are also added the severall fairs held in England each month this yeare / / amplified with many good things ... and fitted for the meaidian [i.e. meridean] of Saffron-Walden in Essex .

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire], : Printed by John Field ..., 1657

Descrizione fisica

[47] p

Soggetti

Almanacs, English

Ephemerides

Astrology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes: A diet after bleeding, a table of interest rates, weights and measures for bread and the dimensions of England and the adjacent islands.

Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0014