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Customer Abuse and Aggression as Labour Control Among LGBT Workers in Low-Wage Services

Abstract

This study examines the relation between customer abuse and aggression, the gender and sexual expression of workers, and labour control in low-wage services. In-depth interviews with 30 lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)1 low-wage service sector workers reveal how customer abuse and aggression works in consort with management strategies to reproduce cis- and heteronormativity. Customer abuse and aggression disciplined worker …

Authors

Mills S; Owens B

Journal

Work Employment and Society, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 776–793

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Publication Date

June 2023

DOI

10.1177/09500170211045843

ISSN

0950-0170