Presented By: Critical Contemporary Studies Workshop
Tipwork, Gigwork, and the Wages of Service
Annie McClanahan
The talk, “Tipwork, Gigwork, and the Wages of Service,” suggests that representations of “essential work” oscillate between sentimentalized depictions of service work as “productive” or heroic and a counter-discourse of service work as uniquely abject or degraded. It reads these contradictions through the history of feminized, racialized, and informalized wage forms like piece-rate and tips and connects that history to contemporary comparisons of service work to sex work.
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