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Title Invisible labor : hidden work in the contemporary world / edited by Marion G. Crain, Winifred R. Poster, Miriam A. Cherry.
Publisher Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Copyright ©2016


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Description xiv, 311 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN 9780520286405 hardback
9780520287174 paperback
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Foreword: Invisible labor, inaudible voice / Arlie Hochschild -- Introduction: Conceptualizing invisible labor / Winifred R. Poster, Marion Crain, and Miriam A. Cherry -- The eye sees what the mind knows: the conceptual foundations of invisible work / John W. Budd -- Maintaining hierarchies in predominantly white organizations: a theory of racial tasks as invisible labor / Adia Harvey Wingfield and Renée Skeete -- Virtual work and invisible labor / Miriam A. Cherry -- The virtual receptionist with a human touch: opposing pressures of digital automation and outsourcing in interactive services / Winifred R. Poster -- Hidden from view: disability, segregation, and work / Elizabeth Pendo -- Simply white: race, politics, and invisibility in advertising depictions of farm labor / Evan Stewart -- Producing invisibility: surveillance, hunger, and work in the produce aisles of Wal-mart, China / Eileen M. Otis and Zheng Zhao -- The female breast as brand: the aesthetic labor of breastaurant servers / Dianne Avery -- The invisible consequences of aesthetic labor in upscale retail stores / Christine L. Williams and Catherine Connell -- From invisible work to invisible workers: the impact of service employers: speech demands on the working class / Chris Warhurst -- Self-branding among freelance knowledge workers / Adam Arvidsson, Alessandro Gandini, and Carolina Bandinelli -- Consuming work / Marion Crain.
Library Class Economics J55
Subject Work.
Labor.
Work environment.
Other Author Crain, Marion G., editor.
Poster, Winifred, editor.
Cherry, Miriam A., editor.
Alt Title Invisible labour

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