Working Bodies – Interactive Service Employment and Workplace Identities: Interactive Service Employment and Workplace Identities (IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book, #61) (Studies in Urban and Social Change)

by Linda McDowell

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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
  • ISBN10 1444310216
  • ISBN13 9781444310214
  • Publish Date 17 December 2009 (first published 1 January 2009)
  • Publish Status Unknown
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Imprint Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
  • Pages 288
  • Language English