Outsourcing of domestic work in the UK has been steadily rising since the 1970s, but little research has considered White British women. This book argues that outsourced domestic cleaning can either be done as mental and manual skilled work or as manual and 'natural' emotional/affective labour, depending on the work conditions.
This work places the economy and study of economics in a broad social and historical perspective. It explores the history of the discipline, the history of the modern economy, different perspectives on the market economy, and the relations between economic matters and questions of human nature.
Information and communication technologies have revolutionized our working practices. This book explores these transformations, and investigates both the impact of information technology on working practices and, how IT is bound up in social, political, and economic issues.
