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
Table des matières
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 Service
Employment 49
Part II High-Touch Servicing Work in Private and Public
Spaces 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 Violence
129
Part III High-Touch Servicing Work in Specialist Spaces
159
7 Bodies in Sickness and in Health: Care Work and Beauty Work
161
8 Warm Bodies: Doing Deference in Routine Interactive Work
191
9 Conclusions: Bodies in Place 212
References 229
Index 256
A propos de l’auteur
Linda Mc Dowell 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, Mc Dowell’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).
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