{"title":"Working in the 'Bleak House' - an autoethnographic study of ethnic segmentation, precarization and informalization in the London hotel industry.","authors":"Z. Slavnic","doi":"10.1386/HOSP.3.1.7_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/HOSP.3.1.7_1","url":null,"abstract":"During the past three decades, the traditional model of the welfare state in advanced economies has been replaced successively by the neo-liberal economic and political model. As a result, global labour markets today are extensively characterized by precariousness, instability, insecurity, vulnerability, risk and, of course, increased exploitation. However, these processes have not affected all segments of the population or all sectors of the economy equally severely. Some groups and individuals, and certain sectors, have been affected worse and earlier than others. This article attempts to demonstrate this through a case study of labour conditions in the London hotel industry in the mid-1980s. Using the author's personal experience as an empirical point of departure, the article demonstrates how the precarious nature of the work, ethnic segmentation and informal economic arrangements that dominated the London hotel industry at that time were early signs of what were going to become the key characteristics of most economic sectors not only in London and the United Kingdom, but - today - globally.","PeriodicalId":13033,"journal":{"name":"Hospital medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81448365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Control and hospitality","authors":"C. Lashley, P. Lynch","doi":"10.1386/HOSP.3.1.3_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/HOSP.3.1.3_2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13033,"journal":{"name":"Hospital medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79712504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Captivity and hospitality in the New Americas","authors":"M. Lee","doi":"10.1386/HOSP.3.1.43_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/HOSP.3.1.43_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13033,"journal":{"name":"Hospital medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87014393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Obesity and hotel staffing: Are hotels guilty of 'lookism'?","authors":"C. Harris, J. Small","doi":"10.1386/HOSP.3.2.111_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/HOSP.3.2.111_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13033,"journal":{"name":"Hospital medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77368113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Life in the bubble: the leisure experiences of female Swedish seasonal hospitality workers in Nordkapp, Norway.","authors":"Bente Heimtun","doi":"10.1386/HOSP.2.2.159_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/HOSP.2.2.159_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13033,"journal":{"name":"Hospital medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85644193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Critical hospitality and work: (In)hospitable employment in the hospitality industry","authors":"A. McIntosh, C. Harris","doi":"10.1386/HOSP.2.2.129_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/HOSP.2.2.129_2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13033,"journal":{"name":"Hospital medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72953709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Farm tourism and dilemmas of commercial activity in the home","authors":"Berit Brandth, M. Haugen","doi":"10.1386/HOSP.2.2.179_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/HOSP.2.2.179_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to analyse the overlap between work and home in farm tourism. When farmers diversify their production into tourism using their homes as a commercial arena for hosting visitors, new challenges regarding boundaries between private and public, home and work arise. The article shows how central aspects of hosting involve inherent dilemmas between the farm as a home and as a site of commercial activities. Moreover, it shows how the boundaries between work and home are managed in order to balance business and a sense of home. Such boundary work consists of attempts at adjusting the product, marking rules and creating separate spaces for home and work, something that produces a more conditional hospitality. The analysis is based on studies of twenty family farms from various districts in Norway. Some of the farms combine tourism and farming while others have altered their production to tourism only. The material includes formal interviews with sixteen women and nineteen men operating the businesses.","PeriodicalId":13033,"journal":{"name":"Hospital medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74236629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is a Self-Catering Holiday with the Family Really a Holiday for Mothers? Examining the Balance of Household Responsibilities While on Holiday from a Female Perspective","authors":"Deirdre Quinn, Ziene Mottiar","doi":"10.1386/HOSP.2.2.197_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/HOSP.2.2.197_1","url":null,"abstract":"The commonly cited definition of what constitutes a holiday is that it is a change from the norm, or an escape from everyday life. But is this the case if tourists are going on a self-catering holiday where many of the tasks from everyday life such as cleaning, minding children and cooking must still be undertaken? This research is specifically interested in the role of mothers, from their own perspective, on such holidays. It explores how household responsibilities are divided between partners when on holiday and questions does this differ from the situation when at home? In so doing this article adds to our understanding about the holiday experience from a 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. HOSP_2.2_Mottiar_197-214.indd 197 10/16/12 8:05:09 AM","PeriodicalId":13033,"journal":{"name":"Hospital medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80907018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Critically unpacking professionalism in hospitality: knowledge, meaningful work and dignity.","authors":"C. Cockburn-Wootten","doi":"10.1386/HOSP.2.2.215_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/HOSP.2.2.215_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13033,"journal":{"name":"Hospital medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87758862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Responsive homes of old Cairo: Learning from the past, feeding in the future","authors":"M. Abdelmonem","doi":"10.1386/HOSP.2.3.251_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/HOSP.2.3.251_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13033,"journal":{"name":"Hospital medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76464169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}