Labour reading group February 23 2015

First meeting this semester will focus on Linda McDowell's book (2009) Working Bodies: Interactive Service Employment and Workplace Identities.

Time and place: – , ES830

McDowell: Working Bodies

We read selected chapters:

Chapter 1: Service employment and the commoditization of the body

Chapter 3: Thinking through embodiment: Explaining interactive service employment

Chapter 6: Masculine strength and licensed violence

Chapter 7: Bodies in sickness and health: Care work and beauty work

 

Alanna Cant introduces the texts.

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Reading list:

McDowell, Chapter 1

McDowell, Chapter 3

McDowell, Chapter 6

McDowell, Chapter 7