"After reading this book it will be more difficult to "do" the sociology of work and the sociology of the body in the absence of the other. In some quite exquisite ways it throws down a challenge which practitioners in both fields will find difficult to ignore"--Paul Stewart, former editor of Work, Employment and Society, University of the West of England. Bodies at Work provides the first full-length, accessible account of the body//work relation in contemporary western societies. Bringing together fields of sociology that have hitherto developed mainly along separate lines, the bo