Healing Labor. Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy, Hardback - Gabriele Koch

Healing Labor is an ethnography of how adult Japanese women working in Tokyo's sex industry experience and understand the contradictions that defin...

Publisher: Stenlake PublishingAuthor(s): Tony BirksIllustration(s): 125 b/w and colour photographsNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2009Dimensi...

Virginia Doellgast contends that high pay and good working conditions are possible even for marginal service jobs. This outcome, however, depends o...

How can a feminist also be a stripper? Can sex work be ethical? And, most importantly, who is looking after sex workers?Publisher: UnboundAuthor(s)...

This interdisciplinary collection takes a deep dive into early modern Hispanic health and demonstrates the multiples ways medical practices and exp...

Gabriella Lukacs traces how young Japanese women's unpaid labor as bloggers, net idols, "girly" photographers, online traders, and cell phone novel...

Publisher: British Museum PressAuthor(s): Akiko YanoIllustration(s): With over 400 colour illustrationsNumber of pages: 566Publication date: 2013Di...

Reducere. Every porn scene is a record of people at work. But on-camera labor is only the beginning of the story. Porn Work takes readers behind the scenes t...

Publisher: University of Washington PressAuthor(s): Amy BhattIllustration(s): 0 illusNumber of pages: 224Collection: Global South AsiaPublication d...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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My Japan - Gabriele Rebagliati

This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverma...

For every person who reads this text on the printed page, many more will read it on a computer screen or mobile device. It's a situation that we in...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Kasturi RayIllustration(s): 3 black & white illustrationsNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2...

This collection brings together diverse analyses of women in Japan-including department store elevator girls, tour bus guides, airline stewardesses...

Part of the Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment series, this edited collection brings together contributions from leading international sc...

Reducere. In the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, far from the hustle and noise of urban centers, lies a village made of mud and rock, barely discernible fro...

Reducere. 2014-SILVER LIVING NOW BOOK AWARD - Recognizing the Year's Best Books for Better Living. HONORED AS THE FINALIST FOR 2014-USA BEST BOOK AWARDS in t...

Publisher: SkiraIllustration(s): 140 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 249 x 290 x 22Cover type: Hard...

This book aims to share understanding of best practice in the industries associated with construction and related activities, recognising that effe...

This book is the first comparative study of media technologies in Japan and the two Koreas which illuminates the peculiar geopolitical relations be...

The second edition of a comprehensive account of all the major aspects of the Japanese economy, substantially updated and expanded.This textbook of...

Studies of women's rhetorics to date have focused largely on the civic arena and the home. These two spheres are clearly important, but they ignore...

A major challenge to the view that prostitution and the "sex economy" can ever be normalised as a legitimate economic business in which women have ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Dr. Jan-Olav (MF Norwegian School of Theology, Norway) HenriksenNumber of pages: 280Collec...

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This book provides a comprehensive survey of Japan's economic history and current situation. It offers a concise description of Japanese economic i...

In a world shaped by mass migration and economic exchange on an ever-increasing scale, women are moving around the globe as never before. This anth...

Publisher: Berghahn BooksAuthor(s): Ewa MazierskaNumber of pages: 346Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 227 x 25Cover type: Paperback / softba...

Reducere. DescriptionFor the first time in a generation chain gangs have reappeared on the roads of the American South. Associated in the past with racial te...

Work analysis seeks to breakdown the work behaviors that people do and the characteristics of people who successfully perform the work, and then to...

Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Brooke Erin DuffyNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 209 x 140 x 30Cover type: Paperba...

Publisher: Tuttle PublishingAuthor(s): Jonathan ClementsIllustration(s): over 75 color and b&w photographs and mapsNumber of pages: 320Publication ...

DescriptionThis title explains and illustrates the 19th-century transition of Japanese armies from traditional Samurai equipment and tactics to tho...

Reducere. DescriptionWhat happens to black health care professionals in the new economy, where work is insecure and organizational resources are scarce? In F...

Kiran Mirchandani explores the experiences of the men and women who work in Indian call centers through one hundred interviews with workers in Bang...

Is crowdsourcing the future of work? This book offers a lively and critical account of the gig economy: its promises and realities, what is at stak...

The crisis caused by COVID 19 poses a major challenge for the global economy and business. It has been a test for economic resilience and how this ...