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Format: 253 Seiten, 4 ungezählte Blätter Bildtafeln : , Diagramme ; , 24 cm.

Edition: First printing, Cornell paperbacks

ISBN: 978-0-8014-5418-9 , 978-1-5017-0049-1

Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-248) and index , Playing by the rules: dress codes in corporate workplaces -- Trading places -- Just like Dad? Family relations and class origins in dressing for white-collar work -- Watches and shoes -- Putting on the uniform: choice, obligation, and collective identity -- Tailor tales -- The metrosexual is dead, long live the metrosexual! -- Zuck's hoodie -- What about women? Gender and dress at work and home -- A man should never wear -- The F word: men's engagement with fashion -- Comfort -- Being/becoming the boss: office hierarchies and dress

Language: English

Subjects: Ethnology

Keywords: Büroangestellter ; Männerkleidung ; Berufskleidung

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Format: XXI, 204 p. 1 illus. , online resource.

ISBN: 9781137365385

Content: Globalization is often thought of as an abstract process that happens "out there" in the world. But people are ultimately the driving force of global change, and people have bodies that are absent from current conversations about globalization. The original scholarly research and first-person accounts of embodiment in this volume explore the role of bodies in the flows of people, money, commodities, and ideas across borders. From Zumba fitness classes to martial arts to fashion blogs and the meanings of tattooing, the contributors examine migrating body practices and ideals that stretch across national boundaries.

In: Springer eBooks

Additional Edition: Printed edition: ISBN 9781349476039

Language: English

Subjects: Sociology

DOI: 10.1057/9781137365385

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137365385

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Format: 1 online resource (189 pages)

ISBN: 9781501739477

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Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Casanova, Erynn Masi de Dust and Dignity : Domestic Employment in Contemporary Ecuador Ithaca : Cornell University Press,c2019 ISBN 9781501739484

Language: English

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Format: 318 pages , illustrations , 21 cm

Edition: 1ra. edición

ISBN: 9789942095060 , 9942095063

Note: Includes bibliographical references

Language: Spanish

URL: Cover

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Format: 1 online resource : , illustrations (black and white).

ISBN: 9781501739477 (ebook) :

Series Statement: Cornell scholarship online

Content: What makes domestic work a bad job, even after efforts to formalize and improve working conditions? This text examines three reasons for persistent exploitation. First, the tasks of social reproduction are devalued. Second, informal work arrangements escape regulation. And third, unequal class relations are built into this type of employment. The volume provides both theoretical discussions about domestic work and concrete ideas for improving women's lives. Drawing on workers' stories of lucha, trabajo, and sacrificio - struggle, work, and sacrifice - the author offers a new take on an old occupation.

Note: Previously issued in print: 2019.

Additional Edition: Print version : ISBN 9781501739453

Language: English

URL: Cornell scholarship online

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Format: XXV, 185 p. 3 illus. , online resource.

ISBN: 9781137365347

Content: This collection of original scholarly work and first-person accounts takes globalization processes and the transnational links these processes create as the jumping-off point for an examination of what it means to be, have, or aspire to a beautiful body.

In: Springer eBooks

Additional Edition: Printed edition: ISBN 9781349478392

Language: English

DOI: 10.1057/9781137365347

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137365347

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Format: 1 online resource (253 pages) : , illustrations

ISBN: 9781501700965 (e-book)

Additional Edition: Print version: Casanova, Erynn Masi de, 1977- Buttoned up : clothing, conformity, and white-collar masculinity. Ithaca, New York ; London : ILR Press, c2015 ISBN 9781501700958

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

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Format: xix, 239 p. : , ill.

Edition: 1st ed.

Edition: Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Series Statement: Louann Atkins Temple women & culture series ; bk. 25

Note: pt. 1. Gender relations : women, men, and work -- pt. 2. The look : images of beauty, professionalism, and success -- pt. 3. Direct selling in context : careers and consumption.

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

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Format: 1 online resource : , 15 halftones, 1 line figure

ISBN: 9781501700965

Content: Who is today's white-collar man? The world of work has changed radically since The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and other mid-twentieth-century investigations of corporate life and identity. Contemporary jobs are more precarious, casual Friday has become an institution, and telecommuting blurs the divide between workplace and home. Gender expectations have changed, too, with men's bodies increasingly exposed in the media and scrutinized in everyday interactions. In Buttoned Up, based on interviews with dozens of men in three U.S. cities with distinct local dress cultures—New York, San Francisco, and Cincinnati—Erynn Masi de Casanova asks what it means to wear the white collar now.Despite the expansion of men’s fashion and grooming practices, the decrease in formal dress codes, and the relaxing of traditional ideas about masculinity, white-collar men feel constrained in their choices about how to embody professionalism. They strategically embrace conformity in clothing as a way of maintaining their gender and class privilege. Across categories of race, sexual orientation and occupation, men talk about "blending in" and "looking the part" as they aim to keep their jobs or pursue better ones. These white-collar workers’ accounts show that greater freedom in work dress codes can, ironically, increase men’s anxiety about getting it wrong and discourage them from experimenting with their dress and appearance.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Introduction -- , 1. Playing by the Rules -- , 2. Just Like Dad? -- , 3. Putting On the Uniform -- , 4. The Metrosexual Is Dead, Long Live the Metrosexual! -- , 5. What about Women? -- , 6. The F Word -- , 7. Being/Becoming the Boss -- , Conclusion -- , Acknowledgments -- , Appendix. Research Methods and Demographic Profile of Interviewees -- , Notes -- , References -- , Index -- , Photo gallery , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.7591/9781501700965

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501700965

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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9780292734838

Content: Globalization and economic restructuring have decimated formal jobs in developing countries, pushing many women into informal employment such as direct selling of cosmetics, perfume, and other personal care products as a way to "make up the difference" between household income and expenses. In Ecuador, with its persistent economic crisis and few opportunities for financially and personally rewarding work, women increasingly choose direct selling as a way to earn income by activating their social networks. While few women earn the cars and trips that are iconic prizes in the direct selling organization, many use direct selling as part of a set of household survival strategies. In this first in-depth study of a cosmetics direct selling organization in Latin America, Erynn Masi de Casanova explores women's identities as workers, including their juggling of paid work and domestic responsibilities, their ideas about professional appearance, and their strategies for collecting money from customers. Focusing on women who work for the country's leading direct selling organization, she offers fascinating portraits of the everyday lives of women selling personal care products in Ecuador's largest city, Guayaquil. Addressing gender relations (including a look at men's direct and indirect involvement), the importance of image, and the social and economic context of direct selling, Casanova challenges assumptions that this kind of flexible employment resolves women's work/home conflicts and offers an important new perspective on women's work in developing countries.

Note: Frontmatter -- , CONTENTS -- , Preface -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction: Avon Ladies in the Amazon? -- , PART I. Gender Relations: Women, Men, and Work -- , Chapter 1. Multiplying Themselves: Women Direct Sellers Managing Productive and Reproductive Work -- , Chapter 2. Men Make a Difference: Opposers, Supporters, and Drivers -- , PART II. The Look: Images of Beauty, Professionalism, and Success -- , Chapter 3. How Products Sell Themselves: Picturing Gender, Race, and Class in Yanbal’s Catalogs -- , Chapter 4. Embodying Professionalism: Constructing the Yanbalista Image -- , Chapter 5. The Picture of Success: Prizes and Status in the Direct Sales Organization -- , PART III. Direct Selling in Context: Careers and Consumption -- , Chapter 6. What Would They Be Doing If They Weren’t Selling Beauty Products?: Women’s Work Experiences in Context -- , Chapter 7. Buying Beauty: Flexible Payment and Expanding Consumption -- , Conclusion -- , Appendix: A Few Words About Research Methods -- , References -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.7560/723863

URL: https://doi.org/10.7560/723863

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292734838