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Author

Otis, Eileen M.

Title Markets and bodies [electronic resource] : women, service work, and the making of inequality in China / Eileen M. Otis.

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Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	xi, 213 p. : ill., map.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	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.
Reproduction	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject	Women service industries workers -- China.
	Women -- Employment -- China.
	Women -- China -- Social conditions.
	Sex role in the work environment -- China.
	Equality -- China.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN	9780804776486 (cloth alk. paper)
	9780804776493 (pbk. alk. paper)
	9780804778350 (electronic bk.)