Linda Mcdowell

Working Bodies (eBook, PDF)

Interactive Service Employment and Workplace Identities

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781444310221
• Artikelnr.: 38307382

Autorenporträt

Linda McDowell is Professor of Human Geography and Director of the Graduate School of Geography at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St. John's College, where she is also Director of the Research Centre. Widely published, McDowell's books include Capital Culture: Gender at Work in the City (1997), Redundant Masculinities? Employment Change and White Working Class Youth (2003) and Hard Labour (2005).

Inhaltsangabe

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 ServiceEmployment 49

Part II High-Touch Servicing Work in Private and PublicSpaces 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 Violence129

Part III High-Touch Servicing Work in Specialist Spaces159

7 Bodies in Sickness and in Health: Care Work and Beauty Work161

8 Warm Bodies: Doing Deference in Routine Interactive Work191

9 Conclusions: Bodies in Place 212

References 229

Index 256

Rezensionen

"Nevertheless, the book is accessibly written, and the variety ofthemes it explores will ensure it has broad appeal amongundergraduates and postgraduates studying social division, gender,service work, labour relations and their relationships. The bookalso provides academics working in and across the disciplines ofsociology and human geography with a good overview of research intointeractive work and its implications in contemporary society."(Work, Employment & Society, 25 March 2011)