Paradise Laborers – Hotel Work in the Global Economy Adler Adler Hardback

Paradise LaborersHotel Work in the Global Economy\nAuthor(s): Patricia A. Adler, Peter Adler\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: ILR Press\nISBN-13: 9780801441899, 978-0801441899\nSynopsis\nResorts have become important to American society and its economy; one in eight Americans is now employed by the tourism industry. Yet despite the ubiquity of hotels, little has been written about those who labor there. Drawing on eight years of participant observation and in-depth interviews, the renowned ethnographers Patricia A. Adler and Peter Adler reveal the occupational culture and lifestyles of workers at five luxury Hawaiian resorts.\n\n These resorts employ a workforce that is diverse in gender, class, ethnicity, and nationality. Hawaiian resort workers, like those in nearly all resorts, consist of four groups. New immigrants hold difficult and dirty low-status jobs for little pay. Locals provide an authentic Polynesian flavor for guests, a rea.