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Markets and bodies: women, service work, and the making of inequality in China
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ISBN: 0804778353 9780804778350 9780804776486 9780804776493 0804776482 0804776490 Year: 2012 Publisher: Stanford (Calif.) Stanford University Press

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Insulated from the dust, noise, and crowds churning outside, China's luxury hotels are staging areas for the new economic and political landscape of the country. These hotels, along with other emerging service businesses, offer an important, new source of employment for millions of workers, but also bring to light levels of inequality that surpass most developed nations. Examining how gender enables the globalization of markets and how emerging forms of service labor are changing women's social status in China, Markets and Bodies reveals the forms of social inequality produ

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