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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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Le fond de la salle, est-ce ce qui nous attend encore aujourd'hui dans un restaurant chic si nous ne sommes pas jugé assez beau ? Un décolleté plongeant, des hauts talons et une taille 36 : est-ce toujours un atout pour réussir un entretien d'embauche ? Le chômage : est-ce vraiment ce qui nous guette si nous perdons notre emploi après 50 ans ? Plus d'argent : est-ce, à compétences égales, nécessairement ce que gagnera un homme sportif par rapport à un quadragénaire en sur-poids ? Après l'immense succès de son livre Le Poids des apparences, Jean-François Amadieu explore un nouveau volet de cet impérialisme du paraître dans nos sociétés, en s'appuyant sur des enquêtes inédites concernant notamment les réseaux sociaux, le monde du travail, la politique ou la télévision. Il était inévitable que le culte de la beauté, de la minceur ou de la jeunesse finisse par provoquer des refus et des réactions dans l'opinion publique. Allons-nous enfin être libérés de la tyrannie des apparences ?

Beauté corporelle --- Apparence individuelle --- Discrimination --- Prejudices --- Physical-appearance-based bias --- Beauty, Personal --- Discrimination in employment

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"The Broadway Body I lied about my height on my résumé the entire time I was a dancer, though in truth I don't think the extra inch ever actually made a difference. In the US, 5'6" still reads as short for a man no matter how you slice it. The reason for my deception was that height was often the reason I was disqualified: choreographers often wanted taller male dancers for the ensemble and listed a minimum height requirement (often 5'11" and up) in the casting breakdown. Being disqualified before I could even set foot in the audition because I possessed an unchangeable physical characteristic that often made me unemployable in the industry. I was learning an object lesson in Broadway's body politics-and, of course, had I not been a white cisgender nondisabled man, the barriers to employment would have been compounded even further. I wasn't alone in feeling caught in a catch-22. Not being cast because of your appearance, or "type" in industry lingo, is casting's status quo. The casting process openly discriminates based upon appearance. This truism even made its way into a song cut from A Chorus Line (1975) called "Broadway Boogie Woogie," which comically lists all of the reasons one might not be cast: "I'm much too tall, much too short, much too thin/Much too fat, much too young for the role/I sing too high, sing too low, sing too loud." Funny Girl (1964) put it even more bluntly: "If a Girl Isn't Pretty/Like a Miss Atlantic City/She should dump the stage/And try another route"--

Musicals --- Physical-appearance-based bias --- Broadway --- Casting --- Auditions --- Political aspects --- History --- History and criticism

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Embedded Racism untangles Japan's complex narrative on nationality and race and how it threatens its very survival. Incorporating a quarter-century of research by a naturalized Japanese citizen, it argues that Japan's economic and demographic decline is irreversible until it can accept immigrants, regardless of physical appearance, as 'new Japanese.'

Racism --- Nationalism --- Minorities --- Noncitizens --- Race discrimination --- Physical-appearance-based bias --- Social isolation --- Social aspects --- Social conditions. --- Law and legislation --- Japan --- Race relations.

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"Despite domestic constitutional provisions and international treaty promises, Japan has no law against racial discrimination. Consequently, businesses around Japan display 'Japanese Only' signs, denying entry to all 'foreigners' on sight. Employers and landlords routinely refuse jobs and apartments to foreign applicants. Japanese police racially profile 'foreign-looking' bystanders for invasive questioning on the street. Legislators, administrators, and pundits portray foreigners as a national security threat and call for their segregation and expulsion. Nevertheless, Japan's government and media claim there is no discrimination by race in Japan, therefore no laws are necessary. How does Japan resolve the cognitive dissonance of racial discrimination being unconstitutional yet not illegal? Embedded Racism carefully untangles Japanese society's complex narrative on race by analyzing two mutually-supportive levels of national identity maintenance. Starting with case studies of hundreds of individual 'Japanese Only' businesses, it carefully analyzes the construction of Japanese identity through legal structures, statute enforcement, public policy, and media messages. It reveals how the concept of a 'Japanese' has been racialized to the point where one must look 'Japanese' to be treated as one. The product of a quarter-century of research and fieldwork by a scholar living in Japan as a naturalized Japanese citizen, Embedded Racism offers an unprecedented perspective on Japan's deeply-entrenched, poorly-understood, and strenuously-unacknowledged discrimination as it affects people by physical appearance"--Provided by publisher.

J4206 --- J4208.001 --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- communities -- racial and ethnic --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- communities -- racial and ethnic -- immigrants -- the West --- Racism --- Minorities --- Aliens --- Race discrimination --- Physical-appearance-based bias --- Social isolation --- Nationalism --- Physical-appearance-based bias. --- Race discrimination. --- Race relations. --- Racism. --- Social isolation. --- Social conditions. --- Law and legislation --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- Law and legislation. --- Japan --- Japan. --- Social conditions