aesthetic labour

(Industrial Relations & HR Terms) workers employed by a company for their appearance or accent, with the aim of promoting the company's image

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She is author or editor of several books including Gender and the Media (Polity, 2007), New Femininities: Postfeminism, Neoliberalism and Subjectivity (with Christina Scharff, Palgrave, 2011) Gender and Creative Labour (Blackwell, with Bridget Conor and Stephanie Taylor) and Aesthetic Labour: Rethinking Beauty Politics in Neoliberalism (Palgrave, with Ana Sofia Elias and Christina Scharff).

Scharff, (eds), Aesthetic Labour: Rethinking Beauty Politics in Neoliberal and Postfeminist Times, London, Palgrave 2006; Rachel Wood, 'Look Good, Feel Good: Sexiness and Pleasure in Neoliberalism' in A.

(39.) Maria Adamson and Suvi Salmenniemi, 'The Bottom Line is that the Problem is You: Aesthetic Labour, Postfeminism and Subjectivity in Russian Self-Help Literature', in A.

Scharff, (eds), Aesthetic Labour: Rethinking Beauty Politics in Neoliberalism, London, Palgrave 2016; Laura Thompson and Ngaire Donaghue, 'The Confidence Trick: Competing Constructions of Confidence and Self-Esteem in Young Australian Women's Discussions of the Sexualisation of Culture', Women's Studies International Forum, 47, (2014), pp23-35.

CONFIDENCE CULTURE AND THE REMAKING OF FEMINISM

"But I like aesthetic labour - which means an employee who has been hired because of the way they look or talk to promote a company's image.

BARRIE; Scottish flavour to dictionary

Aesthetic labour should be about great service, not great teeth."

Style code; A survey reveals that self-presentation skills are becoming more important than job ability, writes MARJORIE CALDER

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