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A Hospitable World?: Organising Work and Workers in Hotels and Tourist Resorts - Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility 1.º edición
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A Hospitable World?: Organising Work and Workers in Hotels and Tourist Resorts - Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
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, accommodating and entertaining tourists and business travelers from around the world.
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. A multi-scalar analysis is taken where concrete worker bodies and their physical, emotional and embodied labour are seen in relation to, among other aspects: the regulation of national and regional labour markets, city governments with global city ambitions, and global corporate actors and labour migration patterns. The book sheds light on the hotel workplace as a hierarchical and fragmented social space as well as addressing questions on worker mobility, the fragmentation of work, scales of organisation and how workers can help shape the regulation of their industry.
This timely volume brings together contributions from international academics and is valuable reading for all those interested in hospitality, tourism, human geography and globalisation.
250 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, 21 black & white tables, 3 black & white halftones, 5 blac
| Medios de comunicación | Libros Paperback Book (Libro con tapa blanda y lomo encolado) |
| Publicado | 25 de mayo de 2017 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138083271 |
| Editores | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Páginas | 252 |
| Dimensiones | 233 × 155 × 21 mm · 392 g |
| Lengua | Inglés |
| Editor | Jordhus-Lier, David (University of Oslo, Norway) |
| Editor | Underthun, Anders (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) |
