This text aims to fill a gap in the market for a book on HRM in the service sector. The focus on human resource management is important to an understanding of the service economy and with increasing numbers of courses focusing on services rather than manufacturing, it is fast becoming an important, [...]

Everyday, we are bombarded with advertising images of the smiling service worker. The book is written with the aim of focusing beneath the surface of these fairy tale images, to seek out and understand the reality of service workers' experience. Within the sociology of work and related literatures, [...]