Walking Mannequins
How Race and Gender Inequalities Shape Retail Clothing Work
$90.22
- Paperback
308 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2022
Summary
In malls across the United States, clothing retail workers navigate low wages and unpredictable schedules. Despite these problems, they devote time and money to mirror the sleek mannequins stylishly adorned with the latest merchandise. Bringing workers’ voices to the fore, sociologists Joya Misra and Kyla Walters demonstrate how employers reproduce gendered and racist “beauty” standards by regulating workers’ size and look. Interactions with customers, coworkers, and managers further reinforc…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780520384651 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0520384652 |
| Author: | Joya Misra, Kyla Walters |
| Publisher: | University of California Press |
| Imprint: | University of California Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 308 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2022 |
| Weight: | 408g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 25mm |
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Critics Review
“Walking Mannequins is an enjoyable and engaging read, and an important contribution to the literature on work and occupations.” * Contemporary Sociology *“Misra and Walters’ findings broaden our understanding of the multiple ways race and gender shape the workplace from the relationships people form with their coworkers to unequal labor expectations, dress codes, and surveillance technologies.” * Sociology of Race and Ethnicity *“A fascinating and useful read for scholars and students interested in work, gender, emotional and/or aesthetic labor, technology and surveillance, and inequality.” * Gender & Society *
About The Author
Joya Misra
Joya Misra is Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She studies inequality from an intersectional perspective, including within workplace organizations. She has published in an array of journals and had coedited three books.
Kyla Walters is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University. She studies race, gender, labor, and education politics using qualitative methods. She has published in journals such as Sociology of Race and Ethnicity and in several edited volumes.
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