Working in the other Square Mile
Performing and placing sexualized labour in Soho's sex shops
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2373674 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Tyler (0000-0002-4481-3543, University of Essex, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 899-917 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Work Employment and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-0170 • E-ISSN: 1469-8722 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0950017012458173 |
| OpenAlex | W2146618506 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 31 |
Drawing on an ethnographic study of an empirically neglected sector and setting of employment, namely sales-service work in sex shops located in London's Soho, this article develops the sociological analysis of sales-service work in two ways. First, it emphasizes the inter-relationship between emotion, aesthetics and sexuality underpinning the performance of sexualized labour, shaping the way in which the latter is enacted and embodied. Second, it highlights the importance of locating, or placing sexualized labour, teasing out the ways in which it is encoded and embedded in the particular place in which it is performed, a theme that remains under-developed in the study of sales-service work to date
Business · Embodied cognition · Ethnography · Geography · Human sexuality · Mile · Service (business · Sex work · Sociology · Theme (computing · Underpinning · Work (physics · Anthropology · Computer Science · Emotional Labor in Professions · Engineering · Gender Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Sex work and related issues · Marketing
Building a Social Materiality
Sex, Work and Sex Work
The Labour of Aesthetics and the Aesthetics of Organization
Peep Shows and “Perverts”
Who's Got the Look?’ Emotional, Aesthetic and Sexualized Labour in Interactive Services
Bodywork Boundaries
Gendered work
Consuming Sex
Cityscapes
Uncovering the Semiotic in Organizational Aesthetics
Patrons of porn
Phenomenology of Perception
Sex and Organizational Analysis
Bringing Space Back in
Making space for sex work
Cosmopolitan Knowledge and the Production and Consumption of Sexualized Space
Keeping up Appearances
The Figures, The Personality and The Bums
Networks of aestheticization
Working space
Employee experience of aesthetic labour in retail and hospitality
Recruiting a self
Ways of (not) Seeing Work
Consuming Eroticism
Brand Culture and Branded Workers
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,58 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |