Bodies at work [[electronic resource] /] / Carol Wolkowitz
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| Autore: |
Wolkowitz Carol
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| Titolo: |
Bodies at work [[electronic resource] /] / Carol Wolkowitz
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| Pubblicazione: | London, : SAGE, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (213 p.) : ill |
| Disciplina: | 306.36 |
| Soggetto topico: | Human body |
| Industrial sociology | |
| 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.: | 9910784512803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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