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Item Details
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WORKING BODIES
INTERACTIVE SERVICE EMPLOYMENT AND WORKPLACE IDENTITIES |
| By: |
Linda McDowell |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£73.80 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1444310224 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781444310221 |
| Publisher: |
JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
13 October, 2009 |
| Series: |
Studies in Urban and Social Change |
| Pages: |
288 |
| 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 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 |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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