Paid to Party : Working Time and Emotion in Direct Home Sales /

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"On any given night in living rooms across America, women gather for a fun girls' night out to eat, drink, and purchase the latest products--from Amway to Mary Kay cosmetics. Beneath the party atmosphere lies a billion-dollar industry, Direct Home Sales (DHS), which is currently changing h...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Mullaney, Jamie L.
Autres auteurs: Shope, Janet Hinson, 1961-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2012.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Work and family.
Women sales personnel.
Women > Employment > Social aspects.
Flexible work arrangements.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
TRAVEL > Shopping.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Marketing > Direct.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Retailing.
Travail et familles.
Conditions de travail flexibles.
Vendeuses.
Vente directe > Aspect social.
Vente par reunion > Aspect social.
Direct selling > Social aspects.
Home parties (Marketing) > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Creating a feel-good business: negotiating the work-family pieces
  • From temporal acrobats to architects: flexibility gets a much needed makeover
  • Out with the old, in with the new: changing how women feel about work
  • The girls' night out: social time and obligation
  • Let the games begin: the importance of playing along
  • Just not buying it: fielding resistance to DHS.

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