Working Bodies

Interactive Service Employment and Workplace Identities

By:

Linda McDowell

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Paperback / softback

Series:

IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series

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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

Author Biography:

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).

Release date Australia

October 2nd, 2009

Author

Linda McDowell

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational

Pages

284

Series

IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series

Dimensions

155x231x18

ISBN-13

9781405159784

Product ID

3498775

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