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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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London
Routledge
2015
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| Series: | Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism and mobility
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Table of Contents:
- 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.