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Working Bodies: Interactive Service Employment and Workplace Identities

ISBN: 978-1-4443-9963-9

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288 pages

July 2011, Wiley-Blackwell

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List of Illustrations.

Series Editors' Preface.

Preface and Acknowledgements.

1 Service Employment and the Commoditization of the Body.

Part I Locating Service Work.

2 The Rise of the Service Economy.

3 Thinking Through Embodiment: Explaining Interactive Service Employment.

Part II High-Touch Servicing Work in Private and Public Spaces.

4 Up Close and Personal: Intimate Work in the Home.

5 Selling Bodies I: Sex Work.

6 Selling Bodies II: Masculine Strength and Licensed Violence.

Part III High-Touch Servicing Work in Specialist Spaces.

7 Bodies in Sickness and in Health: Care Work and Beauty Work.

8 Warm Bodies: Doing Deference in Routine Interactive Work.

9 Conclusions: Bodies in Place.

References.

Index.