Women and tourist work in Jamaica : seven miles of sandy beach / A. Lynn Bolles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bolles, Augusta Lynn, author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Anthropology of tourism: heritage, mobility, and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in tourism--Jamaica--Negril.

Women in tourism.

Tourism--Employees.

Tourism.

Women employees--Jamaica--Negril--Social conditions.

Women employees.

Tourism--Jamaica--Negril.

Women employees--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Jamaica--Negril.

Physical Description:

xii, 157 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2022]

Summary:

In Women and Tourist Work in Jamaica: Seven Miles of Sandy Beach, A. Lynne Bolles examines Jamaican women tourist workers and their workplaces in Negril, Jamaica. A major component of Negril's tourism success is the labor of women tourist workers, ranging from housekeepers to hotel and business owners. Bolles's ethnographic research examines key aspects of women's labor in the tourist industry through the lenses of class, color, education, and training. Through the narratives of thirty interlocutors, Bolles focuses on the prescience of emotional labor and face-to-face encounters, investigating these women's ideas about tourism on the local level and their wariness of the changing physical environment as a result of tourism expansion--back cover.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Brief History of Caribbean and Jamaican Tourism

2. Tourism in Negril, the Capital of Casual

3. Women, Work, and Tourism

4. Welcome to Negril

5. Entrepreneurs

6. Nightlife.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-145) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Bolles, Augusta Lynn. Women and tourist work in Jamaica

ISBN:

9781793615565

179361556X

OCLC:

1263263634

Publisher Number:

99989723777