Lyric and the Service Sector

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jasper Bernes
Keyword(s):  
Service Sector ◽  
Service Work ◽  
The City

O’Hara’s “I do this, I do that” poems detail the poet’s movements through the city during periods of leisure. In this chapter, Bernes argues that such leisure periods are usually, implicitly or explicitly, circumscribed by periods of work. This is especially true in Lunch Poems, where the conceit of the book is that many of the poems were written during his “lunch hour.” O’Hara’s lunch-hour pastorals are not so much opposed to the workday and its unfree time of getting things done as they are a space for an alternative kind of work. This chapter proposes that we see O’Hara as poet of service work as much as poet of consumption, reorienting ourselves to the presence of labor (his own and others’) within the poems. In particular, Bernes argues, O’Hara adapts the resources of the lyric poem to the transactional space of service work.

Performing Work: Bodily Representations in Merchant Banks

1994 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 727-750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda McDowell ◽  
Gill Court
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Service Work ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Workplace Experiences ◽  
The Social ◽  
City Of London ◽  
Professional Capacity ◽  
The City ◽  
Interactive Service

Not only is the workplace a significant site of the social construction of feminine and masculine identities but in an increasing range of service sector occupations, a gendered bodily performance is a significant part of selling a product. In this paper, we draw on Butler's notion of gender identity as a regulatory fiction to investigate the consequences of the specificity of embodiment and gendered performances. Drawing on three case studies in the City of London, we explore the differential fictions constructed by men and women engaged in interactive service work in a professional capacity in merchant banks. We examine the ways in which women are embodied and/or represented as ‘woman’ in the workplace, comparing women's sense of themselves and their everyday workplace experiences with those of men doing the same job. Our aim is to establish whether the necessity of selling oneself as part of the product in such service sector employment challenges the idealisation of male workers as disembodied rational subjects, while not necessarily disrupting the inferior position of embodied women.

THE ONOMASTIC SPACE OF IRKUTSK

2020 ◽  
pp. 164-170
Author(s):  
V.I. Semenova
Keyword(s):  
Service Sector ◽  
Population Migration ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
Spatial Coordinates ◽  
Market Relations ◽  
The City

In the post-Soviet era, the onomastic space of Irkutsk noticeably changed. First, changes are found in ergonymy. The transition of the Russian economy to market relations caused the emergence of many new commercial enterprises, which receive their own names. The process of ergonymy development is seriously affected by international population migration. Most migrants work in the service sector and often give their enterprises names associated with their homeland or reflecting national peculiarities. In the linguistic and cultural space of the city, more and more ethnic names appear. These names are included in the system of urban spatial coordinates, significantly changing the composition of ergonyms. ОБСУЖДЕНИЕ:

scholarly journals STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT OF RESTAURANT BUSINESS VINNYTSIA

2021 ◽  
pp. 43-56
Author(s):  
Uliya STAVSKA
Keyword(s):  
Service Sector ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Service Economy ◽  
Territorial Development ◽  
Strategic Development ◽  
Project Approach ◽  
Local Budget ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Combined Strategy ◽  
The City

The article provides an essential description of the concept of «service economy», defines its difference from the «industrial economy». Approaches to the definition of the term «restaurant business» are considered. Taking into account the specifics of the restaurant business, it is proposed to use the concept of «service landscape», which provides comfort of the institution, convenience of its location, perfection of interior, quality of service, implementation and use of innovative technologies of restaurant business. During the study, the algorithm and methodological basis for choosing a strategy for the development of the service economy sector of the region - restaurant business, based on identifying its prospects and attractiveness and allow on a systematic basis to link the prerequisites and conditions of enterprise development with restaurant product differentiation. As a result of the morphological analysis, the restaurants of the city of Vinnytsia were identified by the type of competitive behavior. This allowed to develop a combined strategy for the development of the city's restaurant business, which is based on the formation of compatibility of key market competencies with the core competencies of the restaurant business. The study the consequences of the strategy for the development of the restaurant business in Vinnytsia, which will improve the tourist infrastructure of the city, increase the number of employees in the service sector and, accordingly, tax revenues to the local budget, as well as improve cultural leisure opportunities for residents and guests. The combination of realization of the project-target approach of development of restaurant business with program-target methods of management of territorial development is substantiated. Projects for the development of the restaurant business have been developed in two directions: projects for the differentiation of the restaurant product and projects for strengthening the service landscape, focused on the development of a culture of restaurant service and innovative ways of serving customers. It is established that the implementation of the developed combined strategy for the development of the restaurant business in Vinnytsia with the use of a project approach will increase the share of turnover of the restaurant business and achieve a number of positive socio-economic results.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Sektor Pariwisata Terhadap Perekonomian dan Keruangan Kota Bukittinggi (Pendekatan Analisis Input Output)

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 347
Author(s):  
Desi Arianti
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Power Index ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Retail Trade ◽  
Sensitivity Index ◽  
Input Output ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Investment Spending ◽  
The City

Bukittinggi city is one of the city located in the province of West Sumatra . Although it does not have the potential of natural resources that can be exploited , Bukittinggi has another potential, which is a beautiful natural conditions, the air is cool, has a historic heritage places, and is located in a strategic position potentially make this city as tourists visiting the area. Because of the potential of the tourism sector serve as a leading sector in the city of Bukittinggi, which is expected to be the main driver of the city economy. This research was conducted with input-output analysis approach, to examine how the influence of the tourism sector and linkages with other sectors of the economy of the town of Bukittinggi. Moreover it will be seen also how the spatial effect of the tourism sector on the pattern and structure of urban space Bukittinggi. The influence of the tourism sector to the economy of Bukittinggi shows the role of the tourism sector to the total demand is 40.86% when grouped into the business field of agriculture and mining sector, industrial sector, tourism sector and the service sector. Linkages with other sectors of the tourism sector seen from the spread of the power index and the degree of sensitivity, all sectors related to tourism activities have spread of power index > 1. But the degree of sensitivity index > 1 only occurs in large & retail trade sector and the transport, while the hotel secto, restaurants and entertainment and recreation has index < 1. Multiplier effect of all relevant sectors of tourism activities have a relatively large effect on both the output multiplier effects, household income and employment. Application of financial input scenarios, showing the influence of the tourism sector on the economy will be larger Bukittinggi if allocated greater financial inputs to the sectors of tourism, both in the form of government spending and investment spending. The existence of attractions around the city center has affected the structure of the city, where the activity and tourism-related businesses keen to be located closer to attractions. However, the pattern of urban development to the east, north and south of the city is more influenced by the presence of the road network.

scholarly journals Urban planning approaches to the development of social infrastructure, considering the behavioral preferences of the population (Moscow, Russia)

2020 ◽  
Vol 164 ◽  
pp. 04036
Author(s):  
Yulia Strashnova ◽  
Lyudmila Strashnova ◽  
Irina Makarova
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Demographic Groups ◽  
Behavioral Preferences ◽  
Residential Quarters ◽  
The City

Sociological studies in urban planning are increasingly being used in planning the placement of facilities across the city, including facilities in the service sector. When conducting a sociological study, the following methods were used: population survey (using online questionnaire), field survey (collection of information about the territory, population, its movements with cultural and domestic purposes, prevailing development, condition of facilities), analysis and generalization of survey results, comparison with data of the official statistics. The results of the study are: the main areas for the development of the social infrastructure of the city and a model of integrated functional and spatial organization of facilities developed taking into account modern behavioral preferences of various socio-demographic groups of the population. On the territory of the city of Moscow (in residential quarters, groups of residential quarters, groups of districts, administrative districts), a new type of facilities is proposed for placement - a multifunctional public complex (MPC) of socio-cultural purpose. The proposed functional composition of MPCs is formed taking into account a survey of the main consumers of services - socio-demographic groups of the population and their behavioral preferences. The main peculiarity of MPCs is the combination of cultural, sports, and additional education facilities that are currently insufficiently present in the urban environment.

scholarly journals Service Work in the Pandemic Economy

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Aaron Benanav
Keyword(s):  
Service Sector ◽  
Service Work ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
The Past ◽  
Rapid Spread ◽  
Economic Stagnation ◽  
The Future ◽  
Working People ◽  
Economic Trends ◽  
Open Question

The rapid spread of COVID-19 interacted with long-unfolding economic trends to set a global tinder box aflame. Over the past thirty years, the world's workforce has increasingly found employment in low-wage, low-productivity jobs in the global services sector. The pandemic lockdowns hit these sorts of activities the hardest. Opportunities to work evaporated, spreading both poverty and hunger around the world. The same rise in global service sector employment shares, which amplified the pandemic lockdown's destructive effects, will now slow the pace of the recovery. The transition to a services-based economy has accelerated, due to what José Antonio Ocampo and Tomasso Faccio call “too much excess capacity and too little certainty about future demand,” which have depressed levels of investment and ushered in a period of economic stagnation. COVID-19 will make these tendencies worse. Weak economic recoveries will further entrench an economic order in which employers pay little attention to workers’ demands, deepening employment insecurity and economic inequality. The future for labor looks bleak. What that means for the future of working people remains an open question. Their fight for dignity, in the midst of the pandemic and post-pandemic eras, will prove decisive.

Unemployment in the Conditions of Digitization of the Regional Economy

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 24-27
Author(s):  
Б. Гриднева ◽  
B. Gridneva
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Regional Labor Market ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Regional Labor ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
The City

Modern trends in the digitalization of the national economy are rapidly moving from the service sector to manufacturing and further to simpler enterprises in terms of technology. The introduction of information and communication technologies leads to significant changes in the labor market. Some professions are in increasing demand, while others are almost dying out, replaced by new ones. Many jobs, according to analysts, will be lost in the process of digitalization, and disappeared jobs are not always replaced by new ones. Tyumen region is a pilot region included in the national project “Digital economy”. In addition, the city of Tyumen is a pilot site of the program of the Ministry of construction of the Russian Federation “Smart city”. The article analyzes the statistical indicators characterizing the current trends of unemployment in the regional labor market of the Tyumen region.

scholarly journals Strategiczne kierunki kształtowania Kielc jako potencjalnej metropolii

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 225-234
Author(s):  
Patrycja Majcher
Keyword(s):  
Service Sector ◽  
Trade Fair ◽  
Sports Facilities ◽  
Functional Area ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
Service Chain ◽  
International Agencies ◽  
Metropolitan Functions ◽  
Publishing Services ◽  
The City

The potential Kielce metropolis, located between well-developed Warsaw and Cracow metropolises, is not highly competitive when compared with domestic ones. Focusing on selected components of the economy, thanks to which a specialization is strived for, determines a bigger chance of arising in the settlement ordination of Poland and allows using a potential as well as simplifies actions in promotion and information ventures. In progressive metropolization it is necessary to increase competitiveness of regions to make them attractive areas not only for local people but especially for foreign and domestic VCs. According to The Conception of Spatial Development of Kielce Functional Area in Metropolis Progress Aspect the formation of Kielce metropolitan functions, especially the replacement of industrial centre as a city function by administrative and service sector centre, is dated to early 90s. These functions are generated by, among other things, dynamically developing trade fair centre, expansion of the higher education and financial institutions sector, administrative institutions, well-developed trade and service chain, presence of business support institutions and units, the presence of international concerns, developing culture, strong media and publishing services sector, well-developed sport base and finally strong relations between the city and nearby communes. Kielce area is non-competitive with other metropolises especially because of adverse demographic trends, insufficiently functioning domestic and European communication, low technological innovativeness, only a few international agencies and lack of specialized congressional service. There are sectors in Kielce Metropolis Area that are especially important for its balanced and dynamic development or are an essential advantage over regional contenders in rivalry for recruitment of foreign VCs. These are: constructional sector, trade fair sector and other services connected with it, stadiums and other sports facilities activity.

scholarly journals Application of queuing theory to a financial institution in the public service sector in the city of Manaus

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 323-330
Author(s):  
Alyne Carvalho Farias ◽  
David Barbosa de Alencar ◽  
Alexandra Priscilla Tregue Costa ◽  
Antônio Estanislau Sanches
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Queuing Theory ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Financial Institution ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Empirical Knowledge ◽  
The Public ◽  
Banking Service ◽  
First Choice ◽  
The City

This paper aims to apply queuing theory to a banking service system. Financial institutions are known to attract large audiences on a daily basis, generating long and lengthy queues. Based on empirical knowledge, it is common to use seasonality to explain the increase and decrease in the flow of people in the agencies, either because it is the payment week of a wallet, the workers' lunchtime. This paper aims to apply the theory in a system, with the objective of increasing the company's competitiveness, so that it is remembered as the customer's first choice.

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