Gender, emotions and labour markets : Asian and Western perspectives / / Ann Brooks and Theresa Devasahayam

• Autore: Brooks Ann <1952-, >
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (156 p.)
• Disciplina: 331.4095
• Soggetto topico: Sex discrimination in employment - Asia; Women foreign workers - Asia - Social conditions; Women migrant labor - Asia - Social conditions; Women - Employment - Asia
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: DevasahayamTheresa W
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contemporary theorizing on emotions and emotional labour / Ann Brooks -- Social and cultural context of gender in Asia / Theresa Devasahayam -- Globalization, labour force participation and the gender gap / Theresa Devasahayam -- Changing patterns of caregiving and emotional labour in Asia / Theresa Devasahayam and Ann Brooks -- Globalization, the "feminization of migration" and emotional labour / Theresa Devasahayam -- Human rights and female migrant labour in Asia / Theresa Devasahayam -- Women executives and emotional labour : the work-life balance of professional women in the Asia-Pacific and the U.S. / Ann Brooks -- Servicing high-end professional migrant and local populations : female migrant labour as a transnational community / Ann Brooks -- Men masculinity and emotional labour / Ann Brooks.
• Sommario/riassunto: Concepts of emotion and emotional labour have largely been defined in European and American terms and according to Euro-American sensibilities with little attention given to the question of whether emotional work or emotional labour is different globally. In particular little has been written about the issue of what defines emotions and emotional labour in public work contexts and how it is configured in different cultural contexts. Gender, Emotions and Labour Markets considers how, and in what ways, emotional labour characterises formal and informal work environments in b
• Titolo autorizzato: Gender, emotions and labour markets
• ISBN: 1-136-84817-7; 1-136-84818-5; 1-283-04169-3; 9786613041692; 0-203-83413-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459234003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge studies in social and political thought ; ; 72.