Dirty Work of Neoliberalism
Language: English
Published by John Wiley & Sons 2006-12, 2006
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- Title
- Dirty Work of Neoliberalism
- Author
- Aguiar
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons 2006-12
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- PF
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1405156368
- ISBN 13
- 9781405156363
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.
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About the Author
Andrew Herod is Professor of Geography, Adjunct Professor of International Affairs, and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA. He has written widely on issues of globalisation and labour politics. He is the author of: Labor Geographies: Workers and the Landscapes of Capitalism(2001), the editor of Organizing the Landscape: Geographical Perspectives on Labor Unionism (1998); and co-editor of Geographies of Power: Placing Scale(Blackwell Publishing 2002, with Melissa Wright) and of An Unruly World? Globalization, Governance and Geography (1998, with Gearóid Ó Tuathail, and Susan Roberts). He is presently writing a book on the global economy to be published by Blackwell Publishing.
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