Walking Mannequins - Joya Misra - Bog - University of California Press - Booktok.dk
In malls across the United States, clothing retail workers navigate low wages and unpredictable schedules. Despite these problems, they devote time and money to mirror the sleek mannequins stylishly adorned with the latest merchandise. Bringing workers' voices to the fore, sociologists Joya Misra and Kyla Walters demonstrate how employers reproduce gendered and racist "beauty" standards by regulating workers' size and look. Interactions with customers, coworkers, and managers further reinforce racial hierarchies. New surveillance technologies also lead to ineffective corporate decision-making based on flawed data. By focusing on the interaction of race, gender, and surveillance, Walking Mannequins sheds important new light on the dynamics of retail work in the twenty-first century.
Walking Mannequins - How Race and Gender Inequalities Shape Retail Clothing Work - Joya Misra
\This is a major contribution to the research on work, consumption, and aesthetic labor in the modern economy. It's a compelling read that will have a significant impact on how we think about the racial and gendered dynamics of workplace inequality.\--Adia Harvey Wingfield, Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor of Arts and Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis \Joya Misra and Kyla Walters offer important, unprecedented insights into work and inequality in an often overlooked sector: fashion..
Walking Mannequins - How Race and Gender Inequalities Shape Retail Clothing Work - Bog af Joya Misra - Hardback
\This is a major contribution to the research on work, consumption, and aesthetic labor in the modern economy. It's a compelling read that will have a significant impact on how we think about the racial and gendered dynamics of workplace inequality.\--Adia Harvey Wingfield, Mary Tileston Hemenway Professor of Arts and Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis \Joya Misra and Kyla Walters offer important, unprecedented insights into work and inequality in an often overlooked sector: fashion..