The Dirty Work of Neoliberalism: Cleaners in the Global Economy

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 María Seifert and Karen Messing).

9. Work Design and the Labouring Body: Examining the Impacts of Work Organization on Danish Cleaners’ Health (Karen Sögaard, 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.