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 M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2012.
Temas:
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
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Global markets, local bodies : the labor of service
  • "The customer is God": women and China's new occupational geography
  • Virtual personalism : importing global luxury and middle class femininity to the Beijing Transluxury Hotel
  • Virtuous professionalism : localizing global luxury at the Kunming Transluxury Hotel
  • Aspirational urbanism : consuming respect in China's informal consumer service sector
  • Embodying consumer markets at work.

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