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Working Bodies: Interactive Service Employment and Workplace Identities

Linda McDowell
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5977-7
Hardcover
288 pages
October 2009, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • Defines ‘body work’ to include the work by service sector employees on their own bodies and on the bodies of others
  • Sets UK and US case studies in the context of global patterns of economic change
  • Explores the consequences of growing polarization in the service sector
  • Discusses the methodological issues raised in case study and qualitative research
  • Draws on geography, sociology, anthropology, labour market studies, and feminist scholarship

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