ISBN:
9780804777278
,
0804777276
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiv, 340 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Intimate labors
DDC:
306.36082
Keywords:
Women Employment
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Social aspects
;
Intimacy (Psychology) Economic aspects
;
Women employees Labor unions
;
Work Social aspects
;
Interpersonal relations and culture
;
Sex-oriented businesses
;
Women Employment
;
Social aspects
;
Women employees Labor unions
;
Intimacy (Psychology) Economic aspects
;
Work Social aspects
;
Business
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
;
Interpersonal relations and culture
;
Sex-oriented businesses
;
Women ; Employment ; Social aspects
;
Work ; Social aspects
;
Frau
;
Beschäftigung
;
Frauenarbeit
;
Intimsphäre
;
Prostitution
;
Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung
;
Sozioökonomischer Wandel
;
Globalisierung
;
Beschäftigung
;
Frau
;
Globalisierung
;
Intimsphäre
;
Prostitution
;
Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Technologies of caring labor : from objects to affect / Ariel Ducey -- The transmission of care : affective economies and Indian call centers / Kalindi Vora -- Foreign and domestic : adoption, immigration, and privatization / Laura Briggs -- Selling genes, selling gender : egg agencies, sperm banks, and the medical market in genetic material / Rene Almeling -- Gender labor : transmen, femmes, and collective work of transgression / Jane Ward -- Traveling cultures of servitude : loyalty and betrayal in New York and Kolkata / Seemin Qayum and Raka Ray -- My reward is not money : deep alliances and the end of life care among Mexicana workers and their wards / Maria de la Luz Ibarra -- Cultures of flirtation : sex and the moral boundaries of Filipina migrant hostesses in Tokyo / Rhacel Parreñas -- Bounded authenticity and the commerce of sex / Elizabeth Bernstein -- Economies of emotion, familiarity, fantasy, and desire : emotional labor in Ho Chi Minh City's sex industry / Kimberly Kay Hoang -- Making home care : law and social policy in the U.S. welfare state / Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein -- Power, intimacy, and contestation : Dorothy Bolden and domestic worker organizing in Atlanta in the 1960s / Premilla Nadasen -- Manicuring intimacies : inequality and resistance in nail salon work / Millian Kang -- But who will care for the children? : organizing child care providers in the wake of welfare reform / Ellen Reese -- Sex and (evacuation from) the city : the moral and legal regulation of sex workers in Vancouver's West End, 1975-1985 / Becki Ross -- Caring everywhere / Viviana Zelizer -- More intimate unions / Dorothy Sue Cobble.
Abstract:
This collection represents a stellar interdisciplinary contribution to research on work shaped by personal and emotional interaction. The essays embody the best quality of the work they explore--a thoughtful and discerning sensitivity to human need."--Nancy Folbre, author of Greed, Lust and Gender and The Invisible Heart --Book Jacket
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-333) and index. - Description based on print version record
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