Styling the Employee: How gender is being commercialised in the course of economic globalisation Cover Image

A munkavállaló stilzálása: Társadalmi nem és a nyelv áruvá válása a globalizált szolgáltatóiparban
Styling the Employee: How gender is being commercialised in the course of economic globalisation

Author(s): Deborah Cameron
Subject(s): Gender Studies
Published by: Replika Alapítvány
Keywords: Gender; female employees; public relations; call-center operators; economic globalisation

Summary/Abstract: Deborah Cameron analyses how and why a style (resembling the popular notion about “women’s language”) is prescribed to call-centre operators in Britain. The valorisation of the “feminine” communication style in the service sector is seen as a consequence of economic globalisation.

  • Issue Year: 2001
  • Issue No: 45-46
  • Page Range: 151-167
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Hungarian
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