Bøker av Carol Wolkowitz

This text provides an overview of types of home-based work, arguing that homeworking replicates wider divisions in the labour force. It outlines the advantages and disadvantages, the pay and conditions, and the family situations for women homeworkers.

Provides an account of the body/work relation in contemporary western societies. This book examines a wide range of employment sectors: industrial employment; customer relations; health practice; care work; the beauty industry; and sex work. It helps readers think more clearly and creatively about how work relations shape bodily experience.

An edited book in the Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment series associated with the annual International Labour Process Conference. Focusing on the body and sex in different forms of work, it explores the labour process, workplace relations and regulations and resistance. Written by leading academics it contains cutting-edge research.