List of Illustrations. Series Editors′ Preface. Preface and Acknowledgements. 1 Service Employment and the Commoditization of the Body. Part I Locating Service Work. 2 The Rise of the Service Economy. 3 Thinking Through Embodiment: Explaining Interactive Service Employment. Part II High–Touch Servicing Work in Private and Public Spaces. 4 Up Close and Personal: Intimate Work in the Home. 5 Selling Bodies I: Sex Work. 6 Selling Bodies II: Masculine Strength and Licensed Violence. Part III High–Touch Servicing Work in Specialist Spaces. 7 Bodies in Sickness and in Health: Care Work and Beauty Work. 8 Warm Bodies: Doing Deference in Routine Interactive Work. 9 Conclusions: Bodies in Place. References. Index.