Identity at Work Ethnicity, Food & Power in Malaysian Hospitality Industry /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Olmedo, Eric (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Θέματα: Social sciences.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Social Sciences.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.

This book investigates the interface of ethnicity with occupation, empirically observed in luxury international hotels in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It employs the two main disciplines of anthropology and sociology in order to understand the root causes and meaning of ethnicity at work within the hospi...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Acknowledgements
• List of Figures
• List of Plates
• Chapter 1: Introduction: The Hotel as Social Laboratory
• Chapter 2: Self-Ethnography, or How my story affects the story
• Chapter 3: Ethnicity, Identity & Society
• Chapter 4: Food and Society: The Life of Ethnic Boundaries
• Chapter 5: The Hotel as Micro-Ecumene
• Chapter 6: The Hotel as Workplace: Technology Transfer & Identity Formation
• Chapter 7: Towards an Epistemological Spatial Turn
• Chapter 8: Conclusion
• References.