Working bodies
Subtitle: interactive service employment and workplace identities
By: Linda McDowell.
Series: Studies in urban and social change
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781405159777; 9781405159784
Subjects: Service industries; Sexual division of labor; Body, Human
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The rise of the service economy; title: Thinking through embodiment : explaining interactive service employment; title: Up close and personal : intimate work in the home; title: Selling bodies I : sex work; title: Selling bodies II : masculine strength and licensed violence; title: Bodies in sickness and in health : care work and beauty work; title: Warm bodies : doing deference in routine interactive work; title: Conclusions : bodies in place.