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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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Sherman, Rachel, 1970-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: 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.