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

• Main Author: Olmedo, Eric (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: 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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.