Bodies at work / / Carol Wolkowitz

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910819744003321
• Autore: Wolkowitz Carol
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London, : SAGE, 2006
• ISBN: 0-7619-6063-5; 1-4462-2369-8; 1-281-24038-9; 9786611240387; 1-84787-705-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (213 p.) : ill
• Disciplina: 306.36
• Soggetti: Industrial sociology; Human body; Labor - Social aspects; Work - Physiological aspects
• 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 (p. [185]-206) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Embodiment and Paid Employment; Chapter 2 - Picturing Embodied Labour; Chapter 3 - Industrial Bodies; Chapter 4 - Customer Services; Chapter 5 - Vulnerable Bodies: Workplace 'Accidents', Injury and Ill Health; Chapter 6 - Will Any Body Do? Conceptualising the 'Prostitute Body'; Chapter 7 - Body Work as Social Relationship and as Labour; Chapter 8 - Concluding Remarks; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 'Bodies At Work' begins by establishing key concerns in both the sociology of the body and the sociology of work. Drawing on existing research, the author proceeds to examine a wide range of employment relations: industrial employment, customer relations, health practice, care work, the beauty industry, and sex work.