Working Bodies: Interactive Service Employment and Workplace Identities - Couverture souple

McDowell, Linda

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1405159782 ISBN 13 : 9781405159784

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009

Synopsis

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

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wiley-Blackwell
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1405159782
• ISBN 13: 9781405159784
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 284
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• Personne responsable: non disponible