interactive service employment and workplace identities /
Linda McDowell
ix, 272 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm
Studies in urban and social change
Includes bibliographical references and index
The rise of the service economy -- Thinking through embodiment : explaining interactive service employment -- Up close and personal : intimate work in the home -- Selling bodies I : sex work -- Selling bodies II : masculine strength and licensed violence -- Bodies in sickness and in health : care work and beauty work -- Warm bodies : doing deference in routine interactive work -- Conclusions : bodies in place