02820nam 2200637 450 991083077470332120230721023123.01-4443-9963-21-282-33158-297866123315891-4443-1021-61-4443-1022-4(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 bodyService industries.Sexual division of labor.Human body.331.793McDowell Linda1949-275981MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910830774703321Working bodies4021148UNINA