‘Switch on’: sensory work in the infantry
There has been little sociological research on work at the sensory level and the result is a largely missing foundational link in the chain of analysis connecting the phenomenological practices of doing work with theories about work. As a first step towards remedying this lacuna the article portrays the sensory work of movement, seeing, hearing, smelling and touching manifested by the occupation of infantryman.
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2009
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Authors: | Hockey, John |
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Work, Employment & Society. - British Sociological Association. - Vol. 23.2009, 3, p. 477-493
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British Sociological Association |
Subject: | body | infantry | occupations | senses | work |
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