Body/Sex/Work

This is an important book which makes a much needed contribution to the sociology of work as it draws together sex-work and body-work conceptually. In doing so it carefully reflects the intimate, embodied and sexualised labour of these two modes of work, through examples ranging from erotic dance, hairdressing, the care of residents in nursing homes, to phone sex workers.' - Dr. Rachela Colosi, University of Lincoln, UK 'This book is a thought-provoking and timely contribution to important debates on the lived experience and management of the body at work. The authors of the various chapters in Body/Sex/Work explore this relationship in a variety of fascinating yet relatively neglected workplace settings, offering significant insights that should be of considerable interest to students and researchers within a range of social science disciplines.' - Dr. Melissa Tyler, Reader in Management, University of Essex, UK 'This book makes two key contributions. By using the lens of employment and employment relations to study body work, it throws light on how this work is socially organized, for example in terms of commodification and space for resistance. And its insights into this form of labour advance our wider understanding of the varieties of work and employment in modern economies.' - Paul Edwards, Professor of Employment Relations and Head of the Department of Management, University of Birmingham, UK

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.Body/Sex/Work focuses on the intimate, embodied and sexualised labour that occurs within body work and sex work. Bringing together an internationally renowned group of academics, it explores, empirically and theoretically, labour processes, workplace relations, regulation and resistance in some of the many work sites that make up the body work and sex work sectors. The book makes a key contribution to research recognising the embodiment of labour and the body, reframing the key questions in critical studies of work and employment. Key Benefits: - The first book that draws together the sub-disciplines of body work and sex work - Written by leading international experts - Contains cutting edge empirical research on contemporary topics Body/Sex/Work is an ideal companion for upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students of labour and organisation studies, body studies, gender, and sexuality. It will also appeal to researchers and lecturers in these fields.