Cleaning Up After Globalization: An Ergonomic Analysis of Work Activity of Hotel Cleaners

The Dirty Work of Neoliberalism: Cleaners in the Global Economy

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 129-149

  Seifert, Ana María ^a   Messing, Karen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cleaning up after globalization, and hotel cleaners; Economic dimension of globalization, hospitality industry in Canada; Employment flexibility and non standard work; Hospitality industry, neoliberalism and industrial concentration; Hotel cleaning work; Human health promotion, cleanliness, and healthy environment; Montr al Hotels, methods of work analysis; Neoliberal globalization, and changes; Speed up and precariousness of work; Work outsourced, impact on cleaners' work

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886852205     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444397406.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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