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Working Bodies
Contributor(s): McDowell, Linda (Author)
ISBN: 1405159782     ISBN-13: 9781405159784
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $41.56  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 2009
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BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Careers - Job Hunting
Dewey: 331.793
LCCN: 2009006549
Series: Studies in Urban and Social Change
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.85 lbs) 284 pages
 
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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