Defines ‘body work’ to include the work by service sector employees on their own bodies and on the bodies of others Sets UK case studies in the context of global patterns of economic change Explores the consequences of growing ...

In addition, the text takes a global approach, with examples ranging from Berlin and Chicago to Shanghai and Mumbai. The book is extensively illustrated with updated maps, charts, tables, and photographs.

The book focuses on a case study of young, white, male school leavers, based in the contrasting British cities of Cambridge and Sheffield.

Divided into two parts, the first section of this cross-disciplinary book analyses the different forms of precarious work that have arisen over the past thirty years.

This volume isunique in focusing on men as well as women, showing that for mentoo there are multiple ways of doing gender at work.