Women and Tourist Work in Jamaica

Augusta Lynn Bolles

doi:10.5771/9781793615572

Women and Tourist Work in Jamaica

Seven Miles of Sandy Beach

1. Edition 2022

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doi.org/10.5771/9781793615572
ISBN print: 978-1-7936-1556-5
ISBN online: 978-1-7936-1557-2
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Abstract

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.

For more information, check out A Conversation with A. Lynn Bolles: Women and Tourist Work in Jamaica.

Schlagworte

Negril higglers hotel industry entrepreneurship inequality food industry gender studies gendered labor service industry neoliberal investment tourist industry women workers

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Preface
1–18 Introduction 1–18
19–38 1. Brief History of Caribbean and Jamaican Tourism 19–38
39–54 2. Tourism in Negril, the Capital of Casual 39–54
55–68 3. Women, Work, and Tourism 55–68
69–86 4. Welcome to Negril 69–86
87–108 5. Entrepreneurs 87–108
109–126 6. Nightlife 109–126
127–136 Conclusion: Women Tourist Workers in the Capital of Casual 127–136
137–146 References 137–146
147–156 Index 147–156
157–158 About the Author 157–158

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