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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction: Global Markets, Local Bodies; 1. "The Customer Is God": Women and China's New Occupational Landscape; 2. Virtual Personalism: Importing Global Luxury and Emphasized Femininity to the Beijing Transluxury Hotel; 3. Virtuous Professionalism: Localizing Global Luxury at the Kunming Transluxury Hotel; 4. Aspirational Urbanism: Consuming Respect in China's Informal Service Sector; 5. Embodying Consumer Markets at Work; Afterword: Embodiment, the Research, and the Researcher; Notes; References; Index.

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