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Rethinking 'mobile work': boundaries of space, time and social relation in the working lives of mobile hairstylists

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Cohen, Rachel Lara (2010) Rethinking 'mobile work': boundaries of space, time and social relation in the working lives of mobile hairstylists. Work, Employment & Society, Vol.24 (No.1). pp. 65-84. doi:10.1177/0950017009353658 ISSN 0950-0170.

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Abstract

This article investigates the relationship between spatial mobility and the labour process, developing a typology of 'mobile work'. Working while mobile is a largely white-collar (and well researched) phenomenon whereas mobility as work and mobility for work involve more diverse occupations and have been omitted from sociological analysis of mobile work. The article explores the range of work involving spatial mobility before focusing on a hitherto unexamined form of mobility for work, mobile hairstyling. Relationships between mobility, employment status and the construction of spatial, social and temporal work-life boundaries are excavated. It is shown that previous arguments linking mobile work with decorporealisation or unboundedness are inadequate, applicable primarily to working while mobile. Other types of mobile work may or may not corrode work-life boundaries; whether they do depends in part on workers' income security. Data are drawn from the Labour Force Survey and interviews with self-employed mobile hairstylists.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions
H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology
Journal or Publication Title: Work, Employment & Society
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd.
ISSN: 0950-0170
Official Date: March 2010
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March 2010Published
Volume: Vol.24
Number: No.1
Number of Pages: 20
Page Range: pp. 65-84
DOI: 10.1177/0950017009353658
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Funder: University of California Labor and Employment Research Fund

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