Markets and bodies : women, service work, and the making of inequality in China / Eileen M. Otis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Otis, Eileen M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women service industries workers--China.

Women service industries workers.

Women--Employment--China.

Women.

Women--China--Social conditions.

Sex role in the work environment--China.

Sex role in the work environment.

Equality--China.

Equality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Women, service work, and the making of inequality in China

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Insulated from the dust, noise, and crowds churning outside, China's luxury hotels are staging areas for the new economic and political landscape of the country. These hotels, along with other emerging service businesses, offer an important, new source of employment for millions of workers, but also bring to light levels of inequality that surpass most developed nations. Examining how gender enables the globalization of markets and how emerging forms of service labor are changing women's social status in China, Markets and Bodies reveals the forms of social inequality produ

Contents:

Global markets, local bodies : the labor of service

"The customer is God": women and China's new occupational geography

Virtual personalism : importing global luxury and middle class femininity to the Beijing Transluxury Hotel

Virtuous professionalism : localizing global luxury at the Kunming Transluxury Hotel

Aspirational urbanism : consuming respect in China's informal consumer service sector

Embodying consumer markets at work.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804778350

0804778353

OCLC:

768081840