The dirty work of neoliberalism : cleaners in the global economy

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910877411903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Place of publication not identified], : Blackwell, 2006
• ISBN: 1-4443-9738-9; 1-4443-9740-0
• Disciplina: 331.761648
• Soggetti: Cleaning personnel - Economic conditions; Cleaning personnel - Health and hygiene; Cleaning personnel - Social conditions; Cleaning personnel - Labor unions; Neoliberalism - Economic aspects; Globalization; Industrial relations; Business & Economics; Labor & Workers' Economics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : geographies of neoliberalism / Andrew Herod and Luis L.M. Aguiar -- Janitors and sweatshop citizenship in Canada / Luis L.M. Aguiar -- Maria's burden : contract cleaning and the crisis of social reproduction in post-apartheid South Africa / Andries Bezuidenhout and Khayaat Fakier -- 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 -- Manufacturing modernity : cleaning, dirt, and neoliberalism in Chile / Patricia Tomic, Ricardo Trumper and Rodrigo Hidalgo Dattwyler -- Introduction : ethnographies of the cleaning body / Andrew Herod and Luis L.M. Aguiar -- The cleaners you aren't meant to see : order, hygiene and everyday politics in a Bangkok shopping mall / Alyson Brody -- Cleaning up after globalization : an ergonomic analysis of work activity of hotel cleaners / Ana María Seifert and Karen Messing -- ; Work design and the labouring body : examining the impacts of work organization on Danish cleaners' health / Karen Søgaard ... [etc.] -- Introduction : cleaners' agency / Andrew Herod and Luis L.M. Aguiar -- Cleaners' organizing in Britain from the 1970s : a personal account / Sheila Rowbotham -- The privatization of health care cleaning services in southwestern British Columbia, Canada : union responses to unprecedented government actions / Marcy Cohen -- Justice for janitors : scales of organizing and representing workers / Lydia Savage.