A Hospitable World? (eBook, PDF)

Organising Work and Workers in Hotels and Tourist Resorts
Redaktion: Jordhus-Lier, David; Underthun, Anders

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the organisation of work, worker identities and worker strategies in hotel workplaces, as they are located in heterogeneous labour markets being changed by processes of globalisation. It uses an explicitly geographical approach to understand how different groups of workers experience and respond to challenges in the hospitality industry, and is based on recent theoretical debates and empirical research on hotel workplaces in cities as different as Oslo, Goa, London, Las Vegas and Toronto. It is valuable reading for all those interested in hospitality, tourism, human geography and globalisation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317751762
• Artikelnr.: 41834109

Autorenporträt

David Jordhus-Lier is an Associate Professor in Human Geography, University of Oslo and a Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research. He holds a Ph.D. in Human Geography from the University of Manchester, and his specialisation is within labour geography and urban social movements. He was the project manager of the "Industrial relations under global stress" project, funded by the Research Council of Norway, which has generated parts of the material for this book. Jordhus-Lier has published a series of articles focusing on geographies of labour, neoliberalism and social movements. Anders Underthun is a Senior Researcher at the Work Research Institute in Oslo. He holds a Ph.D. in Human Geography from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. His interests include the politics of regional economic development, industrial relations in the hospitality and aviation industries, and the impact of Temporary Work Agencies on the politics of work.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: The spatialities of hotels and tourism workplaces David
Jordhus-Lier and Anders Underthun 2. Making difference within the hotel:
Labour mobility and the internationalization of reproductive work Kristina
Zampoukos and Dimitri Ioannides 3. Stretching liminal spaces of work?
Temporality, displacement and precariousness among transient hotel workers
Anders Underthun 4. Fragmentation revisited: Flexibility, differentiation
and solidarity in hotels David Jordhus-Lier 5. The hotel sector in an age
of uncertainty: A labour perspective Steven Tufts 6. Labour geographies in
India's hotel industry Anibel Ferus-Comelo 7. Outsourcing with a human
face: Variegated workplace regimes in the Norwegian hotel industry Synne
Dokka, Hege Knutsen and Sylvi Birgit Endresen 8. Diverging work experiences
and time horizons: Mapping hotel workers in the Oslo metropolitan area
Anders Underthun and Aadne Aasland 9. The resort as a workplace: Seasonal
workers in a Norwegian mountain municipality Erik Henningsen, David
Jordhus-Lier and Anders Underthun 10. Extinguishing fires. Coping with
outsourcing in Norwegian hotel workplaces David Jordhus-Lier 11.
Multi-scalar organising in London's hotels: The challenges of engaging
transient workers through labour and community alliances Gabriella Alberti
12. Altering the landscape: Reassessing UNITE HERE in Las Vegas'
hospitality industry Mia Gray 13. 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
14. Conclusion: Five challenges for solidarity and representation in
hospitality workplaces David Jordhus-Lier and Steven Tufts