The dirty work of neoliberalism: cleaners in the global economy
Aguiar, Luis L.M. ; Herod, Andrew
Blackwell - Oxford
2006
VI, 263 p.
cleaner ; cleaning of workplace ; globalization ; occupational health ; outsourcing ; trade unionization ; working conditions ; work load
Canada ; Chile ; Denmark ; New Zealand ; United Kingdom
Service sector
English
Bibliogr.
978-1-4051-5636-3
08.17-57115
"This book provides the first intensive study focusing on building cleaners and their global experiences. It 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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