Work and life in the global economy: a gendered analysis of service work

This book aims to explore the social and cultural issues within the economic changes that have given rise to service work. Written by specialists in their respective fields, this book draws together authors from interdisciplinary areas that are carrying out significant research into gender and service work within an international context. INDICE: Introduction; D.Howcroft ; H.Richardson - Women as Knowledge Workers: From the Telegraph to the Computer; A.Adam - Respectability and Flexibility in the Neoliberal Service Economy; Carla Freeman - 'Are you married?' Exploring Gender in a Global Workplace in India; M.D'Mello - Gendered Hierarchies inTransnational Call Centres in India; K.Mirchandani - Domestic Labour b The Experience of Work in India's Other Call Centre Industry; P.Taylor , P.D'Cruz , E.Noronha ; D.Scholarios - 'Caring' Professionals: Global Migration and Gendered Cultural Economy; S.Arun - The Crisis of Care, International Migration, andPublic Policy; L.Benería - Reflections on Gender and Pay Inequalities in the Contemporary Service Economy; D.Perrons - Clerks, Cashiers, Customer Carers: Women's Work in European Services; J.Webster - An ICT Skills Model of Inclusion: Contemporary Distortions of Equity in British Network Engineer Training; H.Gillard - The Isolated Professional: Conflict, Fragmentation and Overload in UKFinancial Services; L.McCann - Cultural Constraints: Japanese Mothers Workingin a Multinational Corporation; B.Crump ; R.Crump

• ISBN: 978-0-230-58084-8
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 296
• Fecha Publicación: 30/11/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés