McDowell Working Bodies

Interactive Service Employment and Workplace Identities
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4443-1022-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Studies in Urban and Social Change

Through a series of case studies of low-status interactive andembodied servicing work, Working Bodies examines thetheoretical and empirical nature of the shift to embodied work inservice-dominated economies.
* Defines 'body work' to include the work by servicesector employees on their own bodies and on the bodies ofothers
* Sets UK case studies in the context of global patterns ofeconomic change
* Explores the consequences of growing polarization in theservice sector
* Draws on geography, sociology, anthropology, labour marketstudies, and feminist scholarship

Autoren/Hrsg.

McDowell, Linda

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations vi
Series Editors' Preface vii
Preface and Acknowledgements viii
1 Service Employment and the Commoditization of the Body 1
Part I Locating Service Work 23
2 The Rise of the Service Economy 25
3 Thinking Through Embodiment: Explaining Interactive ServiceEmployment 49
Part II High-Touch Servicing Work in Private and PublicSpaces 77
4 Up Close and Personal: Intimate Work in the Home 79
5 Selling Bodies I: Sex Work 101
6 Selling Bodies II: Masculine Strength and Licensed Violence129
Part III High-Touch Servicing Work in Specialist Spaces159
7 Bodies in Sickness and in Health: Care Work and Beauty Work161
8 Warm Bodies: Doing Deference in Routine Interactive Work191
9 Conclusions: Bodies in Place 212
References 229
Index 256

Über Autor(innen)

Linda McDowell is Professor of Human Geography and Director of the Graduate School of Geography at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St. John's College, where she is also Director of the Research Centre. Widely published, McDowell's books include Capital Culture: Gender at Work in the City (1997), Redundant Masculinities? Employment Change and White Working Class Youth (2003) and Hard Labour (2005).