Working Bodies : Interactive Service Employment and Workplace Identities
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Format
Hardback
ISBN-10
1405159774
ISBN-13
9781405159777
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint
Wiley-Blackwell
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 2nd, 2009
Print length
288 Pages
Weight
562 grams
Dimensions
23.70 x 16.00 x 2.30 cms
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Sociology: work & labourSociology: work and labourLabour / income economicsLabour economics
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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.
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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