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■しかくTANAKA Keiko September 15, 2014 Always Smile Whatever Unreasonable Behaviors May Happen: Labor of Dispatched Event Companions Hired By-the-Day who Sell Cellular Phones,Shoraisha, 264p. ISBN-10: 4879843296 ISBN-13: 978-4-87984-329-6 2000 yen+tax [amazon]/[kinokuniya]

■しかくContents

A sociologist, who have experienced a dispatched event companion hired by-the-day who sell cellular phones for seven years, writes about labor sociology with rich realistic sensation.

■しかくTable of Contents

Introduction What Kind of Job Is an Event Companion?
1 A Sales Promotion Event for Selling Cellular Phones Is Hilarious Merrymaking
2 The Event Companion Selling Cellular Phones Is Hired by-the-day, not a Model or Personality
3 Is Event Companion a Carefree Job that Flatters Men?
4 Labor Environment of Event Companion
5 Event Companions Hired By-the-Day Live in the Different World
6 Objective and Structure of This Book

Chapter 1 Becoming an Event Companion
1 Most Job Offers Are Consultative Sales
2 The Job is Consultative Sales
3 "Quota", "Self-explosion", and "Suspension of Employment"
4 The Result Is Everything--Sales Ranking
5 Troubles concerning Different Daily Pay
6 Since It Is High Rank, "Giving up in Frustration Is Really Welcome"
7 Since It Is Low Rank, "the Event Companion Is Used Conveniently"
8 Skills Found Ex Post Facto

Chapter 2 Troubling Men of Complicit in the "Slave System of Dispatched Day Labor"
1 Appearance and Expansion of Dispatached Day Labor
2 Labors who Are in Trouble Due to Prohibition of Dispatached Day Labor in Principle
3 The Job of the Persons who Are in Charge of Managing Companions at the Despatch Destination (Company X) ?@――Management of the Staff
4 The Job of the Persons who Are in Charge of Managing Companions at the Despatch Destination (Company X) ?A――"Nearing Hype Recruitment"
5 The Job of the Persons who Are in Charge of Managing Companions at at the Despatch Destination (Company X) ?B――Claim Processing of Suspension of Employment
6 The Job of the Employees at the Despatch Destination (Company Y) ?@――The Sales Quota and "Self-explosion"
7 The Job of the Employees at the Despatch Destination (Company Y) ?A――"Relief-like" Sexual Harassment
8 The Job of the Employees at the Despatch Destination (Company Y) ?B――"Is There Any Company Other Than Sweatshops?"
9 The Job of the Employees at Electronics Retail Store Z ?@――Labor under Surveillance
10 The Job of the Employee at Electronics Retail Store Z ?A――Power Harassment and Sexual Harassment
11 Bizarre Complicity between Male Laborers and Companions

Chapter 3 Event Companions as Emotional Laborers
1 What Is Emotional Labor?
2 Individualization as "Character Issue"
3 Using Emotional Labor to Manage Troubles
4 How to Deal with Camera Voyeurism
5 How to Deal with Sexual Harassment and Stalkers
6 Emotional Management Is Necessary Even among Companions
7 Emotional Management of "Be Cheerful and Smile!"
8 Emotional Labor and Emotional Management which Make Labor Issues Latescent

Chapter 4 Fights among Women concerning Exploitation of Femininity
1 Public Attitude that "Sexual Harassment Is a Problem!"
2 Using Sexual Harassment
3 "I Want to Be Sexually Harassment"
4 "What Is Sexual Harassment?"
5 Additional Income through Sexual Harassment
6 Woman Divided through Sexual Harassment

Conclusion In Order to Keep Resisting an Unreasonable Labor Situation
1 Issues which Are Latescent under Hard and Poor Labor Conditions
2 Putting the Problems off: In Case of Event Companions
3 Between Companions and My Job: In Case of Male Regular Employees at Dispatching Undertaking Company X
4 Pretending to Work Rather Than Labor Movements: In Case of Male Regular Employees at the Despatch Destination (Company Y) and Electronics Retail Store Z
5 "Human Beings as Working Force"
6 The Starting Point Is to Share "Sadness" and "Anger"

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