Working bodies : interactive service employment and workplace identities

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Working bodies : interactive service employment and workplace identities

Linda McDowell

(Studies in urban and social change)

Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-255) and index

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内容説明

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 others Sets UK case studies in the context of global patterns of economic change Explores the consequences of growing polarization in the service sector Draws on geography, sociology, anthropology, labour market studies, and feminist scholarship

目次

List of Illustrations vi Series Editors' Preface vii Preface and Acknowledgements viii 1 Service Employment and the Commoditization of the Body 1 Part I Locating Service Work 23 2 The Rise of the Service Economy 25 3 Thinking Through Embodiment: Explaining Interactive Service Employment 49 Part II High-Touch Servicing Work in Private and Public Spaces 77 4 Up Close and Personal: Intimate Work in the Home 79 5 Selling Bodies I: Sex Work 101 6 Selling Bodies II: Masculine Strength and Licensed Violence 129 Part III High-Touch Servicing Work in Specialist Spaces 159 7 Bodies in Sickness and in Health: Care Work and Beauty Work 161 8 Warm Bodies: Doing Deference in Routine Interactive Work 191 9 Conclusions: Bodies in Place 212 References 229 Index 256

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