02854nam 2200649 450 991013989750332120210209151513.01-4443-9963-21-282-33158-297866123315891-4443-1021-61-4443-1022-4(CKB)1000000000806571(EBL)547153(OCoLC)559007457(SSID)ssj0000313594(PQKBManifestationID)11240427(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000313594(PQKBWorkID)10363496(PQKB)11380559(MiAaPQ)EBC547153(MiAaPQ)EBC4523967(MiAaPQ)EBC819481(EXLCZ)99100000000080657120090220d2009 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWorking bodies interactive service employment and workplace identities /Linda McDowellChichester, UK ;Malden, MA :Wiley-Blackwell,2009.1 online resource (284 p.)Studies in urban and social changeDescription based upon print version of record.1-4051-5978-2 1-4051-5977-4 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 othersSets UK case studies in the context of global patterns of economic changeExplores the consequences of growing polarization in the service sectorDraws on geography, sociology, anthropology, labour market studies, and feminist scholarshipStudies in urban and social change.Service industriesSexual division of laborHuman bodyElectronic books.Service industries.Sexual division of labor.Human body.331.793McDowell Linda1949-275981MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910139897503321Working bodies2250782UNINA