Working Bodies
Interactive Service Employment and Workplace Identities
Chapter One
Service Employment
and the Commoditization
of the Body
It is illiberal and servile to get the living with hand and sweat of the body.
William Alley, The Poore Man's Library, 1571
Work is no less valuable for the opportunity it and the human relations connected
with it provide for a very considerable discharge of libidinal component
impulses, narcissistic, aggressive and even erotic, than because it is indispensable
for subsistence and justifies existence in a society.
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents, 1930
Introduction: Narratives of Change
This is a book about bodies at work. It is about who does what sort of waged
work in the contemporary service economies that dominate the western world.
Its aim is to explore who does what, where, with whom, for ... read full excerpt from Working Bodies: Interactive Service Employment and Workplace Identities ebook
