Working bodies : interactive service employment and workplace identities / Linda McDowell.
By: McDowell, Linda.
Material type:
BookSeries: Studies in urban and social change. Publisher: Chichester, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009Description: ix, 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781405159777 (hardcover : alk. paper); 1405159774 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9781405159784 (pbk. : alk. paper); 1405159782 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Service industries | Sexual division of labor | Human bodyDDC classification: 331.793
Contents:
The rise of the service economy -- Thinking through embodiment : explaining interactive service employment -- Up close and personal : intimate work in the home -- Selling bodies I : sex work -- Selling bodies II : masculine strength and licensed violence -- Bodies in sickness and in health : care work and beauty work -- Warm bodies : doing deference in routine interactive work -- Conclusions : bodies in place.
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Indian Institute of Management Udaipur A4/5 | 331.793 (Browse shelf) | 1 | Available |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The rise of the service economy -- Thinking through embodiment : explaining interactive service employment -- Up close and personal : intimate work in the home -- Selling bodies I : sex work -- Selling bodies II : masculine strength and licensed violence -- Bodies in sickness and in health : care work and beauty work -- Warm bodies : doing deference in routine interactive work -- Conclusions : bodies in place.
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