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■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]

■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.

■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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