A hospitable world? : organising work and workers in hotels and tourist resorts

"The hospitality and tourism sector is a large and rapidly expanding industry worldwide, and can rightfully be described as a vehicle of globalisation. Hotels are among the cornerstones of the industry often drawing workers from the most vulnerable segments of multicultural labour markets, acco...

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Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Jordhus-Lier, David (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Underthun, Anders (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Δημοσίευση: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
Σειρά:Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Introduction : the spatialities of hotels and tourism workplaces / David Jordhus-Lier and Anders Underthun
  • Making difference within the hotel : labour mobility and the internationalization of reproductive work / Kristina Zampoukos and Dimitri Ioannides
  • Betwixt and between spaces of work : the temporal and spatial liminality of hotel work / Anders Underthun
  • Fragmentation revisited : flexibility, differentiation and solidarity in hotels / David Jordhus-Lier
  • The hotel sector in an age of uncertainty : a labour perspective / Steven Tufts
  • Labour geographies in India's hotel industry / Anibel Ferus-Comelo
  • Outsourcing with a human face : variegated workplace regimes in the Norwegian hotel industry / Synne Dokka, Hege Knutsen and Sylvi Birgit Endresen
  • Diverging work experiences and time horizons : mapping hotel workers in the Oslo metropolitan area / Anders Underthun and Aadne Aasland
  • The resort as a workplace : seasonal workers in a Norwegian mountain municipality / Erik Henningsen, David Jordhus-Lier and Anders Underthun
  • Extinguishing fires : coping with outsourcing in Norwegian hotel workplaces / David Jordhus-Lier
  • Multi-scalar organising in London's hotels : the challenges of engaging transient workers through labour and community alliances / Gabriella Alberti
  • Altering the landscape : reassessing UNITE HERE in Las Vegas' Hospitality Industry / Mia Gray
  • Examining the opportunities and challenges of union organising within the hospitality industry : the Fair Hotels Ireland strategy / Ann Cecilie Bergene, Karla Boluk and Ethel Buckley
  • Conclusion : five challenges for solidarity and representation in hospitality workplaces / David Jordhus-Lier and Steven Tufts.