Invisible Labor
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Invisible Labor

  1. 327 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Invisible Labor

About this book

Across the world, workers labor without pay for the benefit of profitable businesses—and it's legal. Labor trends like outsourcing and technology hide some workers, and branding and employer mandates erase others. Invisible workers who remain under-protected by wage laws include retail workers who function as walking billboards and take payment in clothing discounts or prestige; waitstaff at "breastaurants" who conform their bodies to a business model; and inventory stockers at grocery stores who go hungry to complete their shifts. Invisible Labor gathers essays by prominent sociologists and legal scholars to illuminate how and why such labor has been hidden from view.

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Information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9780520287174
eBook ISBN
9780520961630
Edition
1
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Labour & Employment Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Invisible Labor
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Foreword: Invisible Labor, Inaudible Voice
  8. PART ONE. EXPOSING INVISIBLE LABOR
  9. PART TWO. VIRTUALLY INVISIBLE: DISEMBODIED LABOR VIA TECHNOLOGY AND GLOBALIZATION
  10. PART THREE. PUSHED OUT OF SIGHT: SHIELDED FORMS OF EMBODIED LABOR
  11. PART IV. LOOKING GOOD AT WORK: INVISIBLE LABOR IN PLAIN SIGHT
  12. PART V. BRANDED AND CONSUMED
  13. About the Editors and Contributors
  14. Index

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