Working bodies : interactive service employment and workplace identities / / Linda McDowell

• Autore: McDowell Linda <1949->
• Pubblicazione: Chichester, UK ; ; Malden, MA : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (284 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.793
• Soggetto topico: Service industries; Sexual division of labor; Human body
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 scholarship
• Titolo autorizzato: Working bodies
• ISBN: 1-4443-9963-2; 1-282-33158-2; 9786612331589; 1-4443-1021-6; 1-4443-1022-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910830774703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in urban and social change.