Working Bodies : Interactive Service Employment and Workplace Identities PDF
by Linda McDowell
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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
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- Publisher:Wiley
- Publication Date:13/10/2009
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- ISBN:9781444310221
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Publisher:Wiley
- Publication Date:13/10/2009
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- ISBN:9781444310221