The Dirty Work of Neoliberalism

Abstract

Introduction: Cleaners and the Dirty Work of Neoliberalism (Andrew Herod and Luis L M Aguiar). SECTION 1. 1. Introduction: Geographies of Neoliberalism (Andrew Herod and Luis L M Aguiar). 2. Janitors and Sweatshop Citizenship in Canada (Luis L M Aguiar). 3. Maria's Burden: Contract Cleaning and the Crisis of Social Reproduction in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Andries Bezuidenhout and Khayaat Fakier). 4. Restructuring the Architecture of State Regulation in the Australian and Aotearoa/New Zealand Cleaning Industries and the Growth of Precarious Employment (Shaun Ryan and Andrew Herod). 5. Manufacturing Modernity: Cleaning, Dirt, and Neoliberalism in Chile (Patricia Tomic, Ricardo Trumper and Rodrigo Hidalgo Dattwyler). SECTION 2. 6. Introduction: Ethnographies of the Cleaning Body (Andrew Herod and Luis L M Aguiar). 7. The Cleaners You Aren't Meant to See: Order, Hygiene and Everyday Politics in a Bangkok Shopping Mall (Alyson Brody). 8. Cleaning Up After Globalization: An Ergonomic Analysis of Work Activity of Hotel Cleaners (Ana Maria Seifert and Karen Messing). 9. Work Design and the Labouring Body: Examining the Impacts of Work Organization on Danish Cleaners' Health (Karen Sogaard, Anne Katrine Blangsted, Andrew Herod and Lotte Finsen). 10. Introduction: Cleaners' Agency (Andrew Herod and Luis L M Aguiar). 11. Cleaners' Organizing in Britain from the 1970s: A Personal Account (Sheila Rowbotham). 12. The Privatization of Health Care Cleaning Services in Southwestern British Columbia, Canada: Union Responses to Unprecedented Government Actions (Marcy Cohen). 13. Justice for Janitors: Scales of Organizing and Representing Workers (Lydia Savage). Notes on Contributors. Index.

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