Working Bodies : Interactive Service Employment and Workplace Identities Hardback
by Linda (University of Oxford, UK) McDowell
Part of the IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series series
Hardback
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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 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
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:02/10/2009
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- ISBN:9781405159777
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:02/10/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9781405159777
