Linda McDowell
Working Bodies
Interactive Service Employment and Workplace Identities
Paperback Engels 2009 9781405159784Levertijd ongeveer 8 werkdagen
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Samenvatting
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
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781405159784
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:284
Uitgever:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Hoofdrubriek:, Werk en loopbaan
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Inhoudsopgave
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
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
Rubrieken
- advisering
- algemeen management
- coaching en trainen
- communicatie en media
- economie
- financieel management
- inkoop en logistiek
- internet en social media
- it-management / ict
- juridisch
- leiderschap
- marketing
- mens en maatschappij
- non-profit
- ondernemen
- organisatiekunde
- personal finance
- personeelsmanagement
- persoonlijke effectiviteit
- projectmanagement
- psychologie
- reclame en verkoop
- strategisch management
- verandermanagement
- werk en loopbaan