Part VII: introduction

Andrew Herod

A chapter in Handbook of Labour Geography, 2025, pp 401-407 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The chapters in this part all consider service sector workers. The first chapter looks at how three different sets of workers – school teachers, Amazon warehouse workers, and hotel/resort staff – have developed various spatial strategies in the face of efforts to worsen their working conditions. The next chapter then considers how Swedish restaurant workers have developed practices to challenge sexual harassment in their workplaces. The third chapter looks at how some domestic workers in New York have organised, securing amongst other things a Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights. The final chapter explores how female platform workers organise their online work around various domestic responsibilities, showing that the same kinds of gendered relationships within which many women are embedded in the material world are being reinscribed in cyberspace.

Keywords: West Virginia; Bessemer; Alabama; Staten Island; Demonstration effect; Las Vegas; Hotel and Restaurant Employees’ union; Performativity; Non-representational theory; Actor-Network Theory; Front of the house/back of the house; New international division of reproductive labour; Cloudwork (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781785363399
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