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Andrew Herod is Professor of Geography, Adjunct Professor of International Affairs, and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA. He has written widely on issues of globalisation and labour politics. He is the author of: Labor Geographies: Workers and the Landscapes of Capitalism(2001), the editor of Organizing the Landscape: Geographical Perspectives on Labor Unionism (1998); and co-editor of Geographies of Power: Placing Scale(Blackwell Publishing 2002, with Melissa Wright) and of An Unruly World? Globalization, Governance and Geography (1998, with Gearóid Ó Tuathail, and Susan Roberts). He is presently writing a book on the global economy to be published by Blackwell Publishing.
Introduction: Cleaners and the Dirty Work of Neoliberalism | p. 1 |
Introduction: Geographies of Neoliberalism | p. 11 |
Janitors and Sweatshop Citizenship in Canada | p. 16 |
Maria's Burden: Contract Cleaning and the Crisis of Social Reproduction in Post-apartheid South Africa | p. 37 |
Restructuring the Architecture of State Regulation in the Australian and Aotearoa/New Zealand Cleaning Industries and the Growth of Precarious Employment | p. 60 |
Manufacturing Modernity: Cleaning, Dirt, and Neoliberalism in Chile | p. 81 |
Introduction: Ethnographies of the Cleaning Body | p. 102 |
The Cleaners You Aren't Meant to See: Order, Hygiene and Everyday Politics in a Bangkok Shopping Mall | p. 106 |
Cleaning Up After Globalization: An Ergonomic Analysis of Work Activity of Hotel Cleaners | p. 129 |
Work Design and the Labouring Body: Examining the Impacts of Work Organization on Danish Cleaners' Health | p. 150 |
Introduction: Cleaners' Agency | p. 172 |
Cleaners' Organizing in Britain from the 1970s: A Personal Account | p. 177 |
The Privatization of Health Care Cleaning Services in Southwestern British Columbia, Canada: Union Responses to Unprecedented Government Actions | p. 195 |
Justice for Janitors: Scales of Organizing and Representing Workers | p. 214 |
Notes on Contributors | p. 235 |
Index | p. 239 |
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