Working Bodies: Interactive Service Employment and Workplace Identities: IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series

Combining geographical and sociological theories with empirical research, the author explores the interconnections between class, ethnicity, gender in the construction of workplace identities, as well as the spatial division of labour in the 'servicing' economy. Informed by the latest scholarship, Working Bodies is a fascinating exploration of the growing significance of low-paid and often casualised forms of employment in the twenty-first century economy, challenging the insistence on new forms of knowledge work in conventional accounts of labour market transformations.