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This accessible and exciting new text looks at the implications of aesthetic labour for work and employment by contextualizing debates and offering a critical approach. The origins of aesthetic labour are explored, as well as the relevant theories from business and management, and sociology. Coverage includes key topics such as: corporate strategy; recruitment and selection practices; and discrimination. Key features include: - a range of case studies from across different types of organizations and popular culture - the exploration of topics such as branding, 'lookism', 'dressing for success' and cosmetic surgery - suggestions for further reading.
Physical-appearance-based bias --- Industries --- Social aspects
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Quality of life --- Quality of work life --- Work and family
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Occupations --- Professions --- Career development --- Australian
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The articulation of work and life, cast as work-life balance, has become a key feature of much current government, practitioner and academic debate. The main message of this debate is the need for "good work-life balance". However, the debate and subsequent policy are too often based on assumptions about work and life derived from blunt readings of empirical data or misconceptions about employee attitudes to work and life. What is required therefore is analysis that explores the back-story to work-life balance debate as well as the operation of work-life balance policies. Compiling critical re
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Skills and workforce development are at the heart of much research on work, employment and management. Policy makers and managers often consider the better development of skills to be the answer to a range of practical and policy challenges. This handbook sheds new light on all the major issues concerning skills and training today.
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