Terry | Be Our Guest | Buch | 978-3-11-063972-8 | sack.de

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 556 g

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Terry

Be Our Guest

Guestworkers in Tourism and Hospitality in the United States

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 556 g

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ISBN: 978-3-11-063972-8
Verlag: De Gruyter


Adopting a geographic lens to examine the employment of guestworkers in the United States, Be Our Guest offers readers the most comprehensive analysis of guestwork in tourism that has been produced to date. In weaving together the constellation of political and economic factors that exist across multiple scales, the case is made for how and why so many tourism-dependent areas of the United States have developed a dependency on temporary foreign workforces. Taking a holistic approach, special emphasis is placed on the economic histories of these areas and shifting patterns of employment, seasonality, gentrification, and related housing shortages. Throughout, the voices of stakeholders involved in every aspect of guestwork are included: human resources managers battling labor shortages, town planners mitigating workforce housing shortages, and attorneys and advocates helping to directly assist migrant workers and affect policy changes. These perspectives are coupled with detailed analysis of state policies regarding guestworker visa programs and labor market stress to illustrate a vivid picture of the precarious lives of the migrant laborers who arrive in the United States. Be Our Guest serves to specifically address a lacuna in critical tourism studies and the growing concern among practitioners over workforce quality and supply. Nevertheless, it will benefit everyone with an interest in issues of labor migration, precarity, housing policy, and immigration reform.
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William Terry is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Geography at Clemson University. As an economic geographer, his work has primarily focused on labor and work in tourism with particular focus on labor migration as it is used in various aspects of tourism and hospitality. His research has been published in numerous academic texts and journals, including highly-ranked peer-reviewed journals in both Geography and Tourism Studies, including Economic Geography, Annals of Tourism Research and Tourism Geographies.


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