“Competing personas”: aesthetic labor in the Chinese fitness industry
Abstract Given the proliferation of lifestyle consumption, industries such as the fields of fitness, fashion, and beauty and makeup have experienced rapid growth in terms of employment numbers, leading to fundamental challenges to working patterns. Based on ethnographic data concerning two fitness c...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2022-08-01
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Series: | The Journal of Chinese Sociology |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s40711-022-00166-1 |