The Dirty Work of Neoliberalism

Name: The Dirty Work of Neoliberalism
Author: Andrew Herod

Cleaners in the Global Economy

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Paperback, 272 blz. | Engels

John Wiley & Sons | e druk, 2006

ISBN13: 9781405156363

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Hoofdrubriek : Economie

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Samenvatting

In this collection of essays, an international group of scholars investigate the global building cleaning industry to reveal the extent of neoliberalism′s impact on cleaners.
This book provides the first intensive study focusing on building cleaners and their global experiences
Brings together an international group of scholars and experts to investigate different national contexts and examples
Draws out important commonalities and highlights significant differences in these experiences
Examines topics including erosion of cleaners′ industrial citizenship rights, the impact of outsourcing upon their working conditions, economic security, and the intensification of their work and its negative effects on physical health
Considers how cleaners are mobilizing to resist and respond to the restructuring of their work.

Specificaties

ISBN13:9781405156363

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:paperback

Aantal pagina's:272

Uitgever:John Wiley & Sons

Verschijningsdatum:7-12-2006

Hoofdrubriek:Economie

Inhoudsopgave

Introduction: Cleaners and the Dirty Work of Neoliberalism (Andrew Herod and Luis L M Aguiar).
SECTION 1.
1. Introduction: Geographies of Neoliberalism (Andrew Herod and Luis L M Aguiar).
2. Janitors and Sweatshop Citizenship in Canada (Luis L M Aguiar).
3. Maria s Burden: Contract Cleaning and the Crisis of Social Reproduction in Post–Apartheid South Africa (Andries Bezuidenhout and Khayaat Fakier).
4. Restructuring the Architecture of State Regulation in the Australian and Aotearoa/New Zealand Cleaning Industries and the Growth of Precarious Employment (Shaun Ryan and Andrew Herod).
5. Manufacturing Modernity: Cleaning, Dirt, and Neoliberalism in Chile (Patricia Tomic, Ricardo Trumper and Rodrigo Hidalgo Dattwyler).
SECTION 2.
6. Introduction: Ethnographies of the Cleaning Body (Andrew Herod and Luis L M Aguiar).
7. The Cleaners You Aren t Meant to See: Order, Hygiene and Everyday Politics in a Bangkok Shopping Mall (Alyson Brody).
8. Cleaning Up After Globalization: An Ergonomic Analysis of Work Activity of Hotel Cleaners (Ana María Seifert and Karen Messing).
9. Work Design and the Labouring Body: Examining the Impacts of Work Organization on Danish Cleaners Health (Karen Sögaard, Anne Katrine Blangsted, Andrew Herod and Lotte Finsen).
10. Introduction: Cleaners Agency (Andrew Herod and Luis L M Aguiar).
11. Cleaners Organizing in Britain from the 1970s: A Personal Account (Sheila Rowbotham).
12. The Privatization of Health Care Cleaning Services in Southwestern British Columbia, Canada: Union Responses to Unprecedented Government Actions (Marcy Cohen).
13. Justice for Janitors: Scales of Organizing and Representing Workers (Lydia Savage).
Notes on Contributors.
Index.