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Title

The dirty work of neoliberalism : cleaners in the global economy / edited by Luis L.M. Aguiar and Andrew Herod.

Publication

Oxford, OX ; Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2006.

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Additional Authors

• Aguiar, Luis L. M.
• Herod, Andrew, 1964-

Description

vi, 263 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• Cleaning personnel > Economic conditions
• Cleaning personnel > Health and hygiene
• Cleaning personnel > Social conditions
• Cleaning personnel > Labor unions
• Neoliberalism
• Globalization > Economic aspects
• Industrial relations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 1405156368 (pbk.)
• 9781405156363 (pbk.)

OCLC

• ocm80332286
• SCSB-5320320

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries