Although they remain largely invisible in the prevailing literature, building cleaners are being affected tremendously by neoliberalism's grip on the reorganization of contemporary work and labour markets. In this collection of essays, an international group of scholars investigates the global building cleaning industry to reveal the extent of neoliberalism's impact on cleaners. The first comprehensive study of building cleaners and their experiences of labour market and work restructuring in the global economy, the book's varied topics examine the erosion of cleaners' industrial citizenship rights, the impact of outsourcing upon their working conditions and economic (in) security, and how intensification of their work is having negative effects on their physical and mental health. Importantly, it also includes a number of essays which discuss various mobilising strategies in which cleaners are engaging to resist the pains of neoliberalism. With a spatial focus that ranges from the cleaning of universities and shopping malls to that of hotels and hospitals, the collection puts front and centre a workforce that is often much maligned by society and ignored by the academic and popular literature, but a workforce which is nevertheless increasingly asserting itself as it attempts to resist neoliberal globalisation.
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"An important collection drawing attention to the invisible workerswhose work it is to fashion the visible.... The debates raised inthis volume could be developed in many directions and it is no badthing that we are left wanting more." (Geographical Journal,September 2008)
"Outhwaite's familiarity with his subject matter isunquestionable, as is his desire to cover it thoroughly, and thebook will serve well as a guide for philosophers to the mostimportant work done by theoretical sociologists on the nature ofsociety." (Philosophy In Review)
"The Dirty Work of Neoliberalism offers a variedand insightful examination of the global restructuring of thecleaning industry and its implications for workers and theirstruggles. It offers a good mix of more structural andpoststructural perspectives on these processes and their inherentlyscalar nature. Moreover, many of its most effective chapters, suchas those by Bezuidenhuit and Fakier, show how work and socialreproduction are strongly interrelated." (Annals of theAssociation of American Geographers)"Subcontracted cleaners are on the front line of contemporarycapitalism. This important collection celebrates their labour,their humanity and their resistance."
-Jane Wills, Queen Mary, University of London
"In this excellent collection Aguiar and Herod capture theglobal dimension of a mundane type of work that until recently wasinvisible to most observers but which has recently emerged as a keynode of new organizing. As the articles in this volume demonstrate,all the classic issues that have sparked labor protest throughoutthe history of capitalism are present in the work of cleaners -wages, working conditions, health and safety, and perhaps mostimportant, human dignity."
-Ruth Milkman, University of California, LosAngeles
"Outhwaite's familiarity with his subject matter isunquestionable, as is his desire to cover it thoroughly, and thebook will serve well as a guide for philosophers to the mostimportant work done by theoretical sociologists on the nature ofsociety." (Philosophy In Review)
"The Dirty Work of Neoliberalism offers a variedand insightful examination of the global restructuring of thecleaning industry and its implications for workers and theirstruggles. It offers a good mix of more structural andpoststructural perspectives on these processes and their inherentlyscalar nature. Moreover, many of its most effective chapters, suchas those by Bezuidenhuit and Fakier, show how work and socialreproduction are strongly interrelated." (Annals of theAssociation of American Geographers)"Subcontracted cleaners are on the front line of contemporarycapitalism. This important collection celebrates their labour,their humanity and their resistance."
-Jane Wills, Queen Mary, University of London
"In this excellent collection Aguiar and Herod capture theglobal dimension of a mundane type of work that until recently wasinvisible to most observers but which has recently emerged as a keynode of new organizing. As the articles in this volume demonstrate,all the classic issues that have sparked labor protest throughoutthe history of capitalism are present in the work of cleaners -wages, working conditions, health and safety, and perhaps mostimportant, human dignity."
-Ruth Milkman, University of California, LosAngeles