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Author McDowell, Linda, 1949-

Title Capital culture : gender at work in the city / Linda McDowell.

Imprint Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1997.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  306.3615 M148c 1997    ---  Available
Description xvi, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Series Studies in urban and social change
Studies in urban and social change.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-235) and index.
Contents Introduction: Money and Work -- pt. I. Gender at Work. 1. Thinking through Work: Gender, Power and Space. 2. City Work/Places: The Old and New City. 3. Gendered Work Patterns. 4. Gendered Career Paths. 5. The Culture of Banking: Reproducing Class and Gender Divisions -- pt. II. Bodies at Work. 6. Engendered Cultures: The Impossibility of Being a Man. 7. Body Work 1: Men Behaving Badly. 8. Body Work 2: The Masqueraders. 9. Conclusions: Rethinking Work/Places -- Appendix. The Field Work.
Subject Sexual division of labor -- England -- London.
Sex role in the work environment -- England -- London.
Financial services industry -- England -- London.
Women employees -- England -- London -- Interviews.
Male employees -- England -- London -- Interviews.
Financial services industry. (OCoLC)fst00924738
Male employees. (OCoLC)fst01006631
Sex role in the work environment. (OCoLC)fst01114655
Sexual division of labor. (OCoLC)fst01114830
Women employees. (OCoLC)fst01177615
England -- London. (OCoLC)fst01204271
Genre/Form Interviews. (OCoLC)fst01423832
ISBN 0631205306
9780631205302
0631205314
9780631205319

 
    
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