1. Introduction : the spatialities of hotels and tourism workplaces / David Jordhus-Lier and Anders Underthun -- 2. Making difference within the hotel : labour mobility and the internationalization of reproductive work / Kristina Zampoukos and Dimitri Ioannides -- 3. Stretching liminal spaces of...

Historical materialism -- Marxism, class and the service industry -- Service labour and value theory -- Retail and the circulation of commodities -- Monopoly capital and the sales effort -- Two stages of production and realisation -- A Marxist analysis of outsourcing -- Cleaning workers and...

"The hospitality and tourism sector is a large and rapidly expanding industry worldwide, and can rightfully be described as a vehicle of globalisation. Hotels are among the cornerstones of the industry often drawing workers from the most vulnerable segments of multicultural labour markets,...