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Laboring Body

The Laboring Body is a theoretical construct within body politics that denotes the human body as a site of material and symbolic production, distinguished by its engagement in socially coerced, economically productive, or politically regulated forms of physical and affective labor.

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5.9K

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111

Authors

70

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2017–2026

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Publications

80

The human motor: energy, fatigue, and the origins of modernity

Choice Reviews Online · 1991 · 1.3K citations

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Pugs at Work: Bodily Capital and Bodily Labour among Professional Boxers

Loïc Wacquant · Body & Society · 1995 · 663 citations

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The quantified self: What counts in the neoliberal workplace

Phoebe Moore, Andrew Robinson · New Media & Society · 2015 · 412 citations · Full text

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An Alternative to Bureaucratic Impersonality and Emotional Labor: Bounded Emotionality at The Body Shop

Joanne Martin, Kathleen Knopoff, Christine M. Beckman · Administrative Science Quarterly · 1998 · 400 citations

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The Body as an Accumulation Strategy

David Harvey · Environment and Planning D Society and Space · 1998 · 194 citations

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Authors

111

  1. LP
    Lauren P. Hunter

    San Diego State University, United States

    2 publications · 124 citations

    2

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  2. SK
    Sui-Ting Kong

    Durham University, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 13 citations

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  3. JR
    Jenny Richards

    Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 22 citations

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  4. FA
    Fariba Alamgir

    International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh

    1 publications · 18 citations

    1

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  5. MS
    Mandie Scamell

    City, University of London, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 62 citations

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Institutions

70

  1. Durham University

    Durham, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    153 citations

  2. University of Bath

    Bath, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    119 citations

  3. The University of Melbourne

    Melbourne, Australia

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    103 citations

  4. University of Cincinnati

    Cincinnati, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    58 citations

  5. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    115 citations

  6. National Institutes of Health Clinical Center

    Bethesda, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    117 citations

  7. Queensland University of Technology

    Brisbane, Australia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    40 citations

  8. University of Delhi

    New Delhi, India

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 5 publications · 1.5K citations

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  2. Gender & Society

    4 publications · 92 citations

    4

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  3. Body & Society

    3 publications · 823 citations

    3

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  4. Midwifery

    2 publications · 190 citations

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  5. Antipode

    2 publications · 134 citations

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