The Harms of Work: An Ultra-Realist Account of the Service Economy

by Anthony Lloyd

As the percentage of people working in the service economy continues to rise, there is a need to examine workplace harm within low-paid, insecure, flexible and short-term forms of 'affective labour'. This is the first book to discuss harm through an ultra-realist lens and examines the connection between individuals, their working conditions and management culture.

Using data from a long-term ethnographic study of the service economy,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1529204011
• ISBN13: 9781529204018
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"