Markets and Bodies : Women, Service Work, and the Making of Inequality in China.

Insulated from the dust, noise, and crowds churning outside, China's luxury hotels are staging areas for the new economic and political landscape of the country. These hotels, along with other emerging service businesses, offer an important, new source of employment for millions of workers, but...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Otis, Eileen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2011.
Temas:
Equality > China.
Sex role in the work environment > China.
Women > China > Social conditions.
Women > Employment > China.
Women service industries workers > China.
Rôle selon le sexe en milieu de travail > Chine.
Femmes > Chine > Conditions sociales.
Services (Industrie) > Personnel féminin > Chine.
Equality
Sex role in the work environment
Women > Employment
Women service industries workers
Women > Social conditions
China
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Insulated from the dust, noise, and crowds churning outside, China's luxury hotels are staging areas for the new economic and political landscape of the country. These hotels, along with other emerging service businesses, offer an important, new source of employment for millions of workers, but also bring to light levels of inequality that surpass most developed nations. Examining how gender enables the globalization of markets and how emerging forms of service labor are changing women's social status in China, Markets and Bodies reveals the forms of social inequality produced by shifts in the.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (229 pages)
ISBN:9780804778350
0804778353
9780804776486
0804776482
9780804776493
0804776490

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