Otis, Eileen M.,

Markets and bodies : women, service work, and the making of inequality in China / Eileen M. Otis. - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2012], ©2012. - xi, 213 p. ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-207) and index.

Global markets, local bodies : the labor of service -- "The customer is God": women and China's new occupational geography -- Virtual personalism : importing global luxury and middle class femininity to the Beijing Transluxury Hotel -- Virtuous professionalism : localizing global luxury at the Kunming Transluxury Hotel -- Aspirational urbanism : consuming respect in China's informal consumer service sector -- Embodying consumer markets at work.

9780804776493 (pbk. : alk. paper) : $26.00 9780804776486 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Women service industries workers--China.
Women--Employment--China.
Women--Social conditions.--China
Sex role in the work environment--China.
Equality--China.

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