This paper investigates changes in collective bargaining policy in the German cleaning industry in recent years. It uses the Socio-economic Panel (GSOEP) to survey employees on employment conditions and expert interviews with key members of the industry to look at possible new paths of...

Looking beyond the shiny surface of Potsdamer Platz, a designer micro-city within Berlin's city center, this book goes behind-the-scenes with the cleaners who pick up cigarette butts from sidewalks, scrape chewing gum from marble floors, wipe coffee stains from office desks and scrub public...

The corporate micro-city Potsdamer Platz: cleaners' presence from below -- Characters from the corporate underworld: Alex, Ali, Luisa, and Marcel -- From feces to flowers: the sweat, shame, disgust, pride and fun of working with dirt -- Separate in the same boat: others and allies among cleaners...