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Autore: | Wolkowitz Carol |
Titolo: | Bodies at work [[electronic resource] /] / Carol Wolkowitz |
Pubblicazione: | London, : SAGE, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
Disciplina: | 306.36 |
Soggetto topico: | Industrial sociology |
Human body | |
Labor - Social aspects | |
Work - Physiological aspects | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Bodies at work |
ISBN: | 0-7619-6063-5 |
1-4462-2369-8 | |
1-281-24038-9 | |
9786611240387 | |
1-84787-705-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910458423003321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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