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Be Our Guest - Guestworkers in Tourism and Hospitality in the United States (Hardcover)
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Be Our Guest - Guestworkers in Tourism and Hospitality in the United States (Hardcover)
Series: De Gruyter Studies in Tourism
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Adopting a geographic lens to examine the employment of
guestworkers in the United States, Be Our Guest offers readers the
most comprehensive analysis of guestwork in tourism that has been
produced to date. In weaving together the constellation of
political and economic factors that exist across multiple scales,
the case is made for how and why so many tourism-dependent areas of
the United States have developed a dependency on temporary foreign
workforces. Taking a holistic approach, special emphasis is placed
on the economic histories of these areas and shifting patterns of
employment, seasonality, gentrification, and related housing
shortages. Throughout, the voices of stakeholders involved in every
aspect of guestwork are included: human resources managers battling
labor shortages, town planners mitigating workforce housing
shortages, and attorneys and advocates helping to directly assist
migrant workers and affect policy changes. These perspectives are
coupled with detailed analysis of state policies regarding
guestworker visa programs and labor market stress to illustrate a
vivid picture of the precarious lives of the migrant laborers who
arrive in the United States. Be Our Guest serves to specifically
address a lacuna in critical tourism studies and the growing
concern among practitioners over workforce quality and supply.
Nevertheless, it will benefit everyone with an interest in issues
of labor migration, precarity, housing policy, and immigration
reform.
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