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Otis, Eileen M.

Markets and bodies women, service work, and the making of inequality in China / [electronic resource] : Eileen M. Otis. - Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012. - xi, 213 p. : ill., map.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2012.
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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women service industries workers--China.
Women--Employment--China.
Women--Social conditions.--China
Sex role in the work environment--China.
Equality--China.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HD6073.S452 / C668 2012eb

Dewey Class. No.: 331.4/81000951