Markets and bodies
Subtitle: women, service work, and the making of inequality in China
By: Eileen M. Otis
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780804776486; 9780804776493
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Social conditions; Equality; Women service industries workers; Sex role in the work environment; Employment; Women
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Global markets, local bodies : the labor of service; title: "The customer is God": women and China's new occupational geography; title: Virtual personalism : importing global luxury and middle class femininity to the Beijing Transluxury Hotel; title: Virtuous professionalism : localizing global luxury at the Kunming Transluxury Hotel; title: Aspirational urbanism : consuming respect in China's informal consumer service sector; title: Embodying consumer markets at work.