Invisible labor : hidden work in the contemporary world / Marion Crain, Winifred Poster, Miriam Cherry.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cherry, Miriam, Editor.

Crain, Marion, Editor.

Poster, Winifred, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Work.

Labor.

Work environment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Across the world, workers labor without pay for the benefit of profitable businesses-and it's legal. Labor trends like outsourcing and technology hide some workers, and branding and employer mandates erase others. Invisible workers who remain under-protected by wage laws include retail workers who function as walking billboards and take payment in clothing discounts or prestige; waitstaff at "breastaurants" who conform their bodies to a business model; and inventory stockers at grocery stores who go hungry to complete their shifts. Invisible Labor gathers essays by prominent sociologists and legal scholars to illuminate how and why such labor has been hidden from view.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword: Invisible Labor, Inaudible Voice

1. Introduction: Conceptualizing Invisible Labor

2. The Eye Sees What the Mind Knows: The Conceptual Foundations of Invisible Work

3. Maintaining Hierarchies in Predominantly White Organizations: A Theory of Racial Tasks as Invisible Labor

4. Virtual Work and Invisible Labor

5. The Virtual Receptionist with a Human Touch: Opposing Pressures of Digital Automation and Outsourcing in Interactive Services

6. Hidden from View: Disability, Segregation, and Work

7. Simply White: Race, Politics, and Invisibility in Advertising Depictions of Farm Labor

8. Producing Invisibility: Surveillance, Hunger, and Work in the Produce Aisles of Wal-Mart, China

9. The Female Breast as Brand: The Aesthetic Labor of Breastaurant Servers

10. The Invisible Consequences of Aesthetic Labor in Upscale Retail Stores

11. From Invisible Work to Invisible Workers: The Impact of Service Employers' Speech Demands on the Working Class

12. Self-Branding among Freelance Knowledge Workers

13. Consuming Work

14. Conclusion

About the Editors and Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520961630

0520961633

OCLC:

949759576