Class acts : service and inequality in luxury hotels /
Going behind the scenes in two urban luxury hotels, this study gives a picture of the workers who care for and cater to wealthy guests by providing seemingly unlimited personal attention. Drawing on interviews and ethnographic research in a range of hotel jobs, it analyses what exactly luxury servic...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2007.
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Table des matières:
- Introduction : luxury service and the new economy
- "Better than your mother" : the luxury product
- Managing autonomy
- Games, control, and skill
- Recasting hierarchy
- Reciprocity, relationship, and revenge
- Producing entitlement
- Conclusion : class, culture, and the service theater.