Cameron MacDonald / Marek Korczynski (eds.)

Service Work

Critical Perspectives
Herausgeber: Macdonald, Cameron; Korczynski, Marek

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the only book available that brings together major scholars to apply different theoretical perspectives to explore the nature of service work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 339g
• ISBN-13: 9780415953177
• ISBN-10: 0415953170
• Artikelnr.: 25404628

Autorenporträt

Marek Korczynski is Professor of Sociology of Work at Loughborough University. He is the author of On the Front Line: Organization of Work in the Information Economy, co-authored with Steve Frenkel, Karen Shrine, and May Tam, Social Theory at Work, co-edited with Randy Hodson and Paul Edwards, and Human Resource Management in Service Work (Palgave MacMillan 2002). Cameron Macdonald is Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Shadow Mothers: Nannies, Au Pairs, and the Micropolitics of Mothering, and Working in the Service Society (co-edited with Carmen Sirianni).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Critical Perspectives on Service Work: An Introduction, Marek Korczynski
and Cameron Macdonald 2. Chaplin's Modern Times: Service Work,
Authenticity, and Nonsense at the Red Moon Café 3.The Globalization of
Nothing and the Outsourcing of Service Work 4. The Disneyization of Society
5. Understanding the Contradictory Lived Experience of Service Work: The
Customer-Oriented Bureaucracy 6. Labor Process Theory: Putting the
Materialism Back into the Meaning of Service Work 7. Intersectionality in
the Emotional Proletariat: A New Lens on Employment Discrimination in
Service Work 8. The Globalization of Care 9. The Promise of Service Worker
Unionism 10. Conclusion - Latte Capitalism and Late Capitalism: Reflections
on Fantasy and Care as Part of the Service Triangle