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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Otis, Eileen M. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2012.
Sujets:
Women service industries workers > China.
Women > Employment > China.
Women > China > Social conditions.
Sex role in the work environment > China.
Equality > China.
Services (Industrie) > Personnel féminin > Chine.
Femmes > Chine > Conditions sociales.
Rôle selon le sexe en milieu de travail > Chine.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Equality
Sex role in the work environment
Women > Employment
Women service industries workers
Women > Social conditions
China
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé: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 produ.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (xi, 213 pages) : illustrations, map
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780804778350
0804778353

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