UNSPECIFIED (2005) Recruiting a self: women performers and aesthetic labour. In: 4th Work, Employment and Society Conference, Univ Manchester, Manchester, ENGLAND, SEP 01-03, 2004. Published in: WORK EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIETY, 19 (4). pp. 761-774.

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Abstract

Discussion of aesthetic labour has largely been confined to areas of interactive service work However, current criteria for the presence of aesthetic labour have long been part of the labour process of performers and in an unusually overt and accepted way. Here, embodied characteristics are explicitly rewarded or marginalized. Much of the entertainment industry is predicated on recruitment based on physical characteristics and in this article empirical research with women performers working in theatre and television in the UK is used to extend ideas on issues around aesthetic labour.

Item Type:	Conference Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Journal or Publication Title:	WORK EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIETY
Publisher:	SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
ISSN:	0950-0170
Date:	December 2005
Volume:	19
Number:	4
Number of Pages:	14
Page Range:	pp. 761-774
Identification Number:	10.1177/0950017005058061
Publication Status:	Published
Title of Event:	4th Work, Employment and Society Conference
Location of Event:	Univ Manchester, Manchester, ENGLAND
Date(s) of Event:	SEP 01-03, 2004
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/34059

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