‘Switch on’: sensory work in the infantry

John Hockey
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John Hockey: University of Gloucestershire, jhockey@glos.ac.uk

Work, Employment & Society, 2009, vol. 23, issue 3, 477-493

Abstract: There has been little sociological research on work at the sensory level and the result is a largely missing foundational link in the chain of analysis connecting the phenomenological practices of doing work with theories about work. As a first step towards remedying this lacuna the article portrays the sensory work of movement, seeing, hearing, smelling and touching manifested by the occupation of infantryman.

Keywords: body; infantry; occupations; senses; work (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1177/0950017009337065

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