Be Our Guest : : Guestworkers in Tourism and Hospitality in the United States / / William Terry.

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 mul...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:De Gruyter Studies in Tourism , 10
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 232 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • 1 An Introduction
  • 2 Tourism Work, Seasonality, and Labor Migration in the United States
  • 3 Why, we only Live to Serve!: A Brief History of Guestworker Programs
  • 4 Pushing the Boulder up the Hill
  • 5 Islands in the Stream
  • 6 Put our Service to the Test: Employing Guestworkers
  • 7 Precarious Work – It Takes a Village
  • 8 Politics and Immigration Reform
  • 9 Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • List of Abbreviations
  • List of Figures
  • Index