Capital Culture

By Linda McDowell

Book Overview

The changing nature of waged work in contemporary advanced industrial nations is one of the most significant aspects of political and economic debate among academics, politicians and policy, makers. It is also the subject of intense debate among contemporary feminist scholars working in the USA and Australia, as well as Britain. The rationale for this book lies in the current transformation of work in advance industrial economies. The shift towards embodied service sector work is not only reshaping gender divisions of labor but also the ways in which men and women do gender in the workplace. This book takes as case study material a particular type of work, the financial services sector, and situates that material within a much wider significance. It is part of a growing series of books about the relationships between the transformation of the economy and the social construction of gender relations.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631205314
• ISBN13: 9780631205319
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"