Identity at work[electronic resource...
Olmedo, Eric.

 

  • Identity at work[electronic resource] :ethnicity, food & power in Malaysian hospitality industry /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 647.94
    書名/作者: Identity at work : ethnicity, food & power in Malaysian hospitality industry // by Eric Olmedo.
    作者: Olmedo, Eric.
    出版者: Singapore : : Springer Singapore :, 2015.
    面頁冊數: xix, 202 p. : : ill., digital ;; 24 cm.
    Contained By: Springer eBooks
    標題: Hospitality industry - Malaysia.
    標題: Social Sciences.
    標題: Social Structure, Social Inequality.
    ISBN: 9789812875617 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 9789812875600 (paper)
    內容註: Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- List of Plates -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Hotel as Social Laboratory -- Chapter 2: Self-Ethnography, or How my story affects the story -- Chapter 3: Ethnicity, Identity & Society -- Chapter 4: Food and Society: The Life of Ethnic Boundaries -- Chapter 5: The Hotel as Micro-Ecumene -- Chapter 6: The Hotel as Workplace: Technology Transfer & Identity Formation -- Chapter 7: Towards an Epistemological Spatial Turn -- Chapter 8: Conclusion -- References.
    摘要、提要註: This book investigates the interface of ethnicity with occupation, empirically observed in luxury international hotels in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It employs the two main disciplines of anthropology and sociology in order to understand the root causes and meaning of ethnicity at work within the hospitality industry sector. More specifically, it observes social change in a multi-ethnic and non-secular society through an ethnographic study located in a micro organisation: the Grand Hotel. At the individual level, this research shows how identity shifts and transformation can be mediated through the consumption and manipulation of food at the workplace. In addition, it combines an ambitious theoretical discussion on the concept of ethnicity together with empirical data that highlights how ethnicity is lived on an everyday basis at a workplace manifesting the dynamics of cultural, religious and ethnic diversity. The book presents the quantitative and qualitative findings of two complementary surveys and pursues an interdisciplinary approach, as it integrates methodologies from the sociology of organisations with classic fieldwork methods borrowed from ethnology, while combining French and Anglo-Saxon schools of thoughts on questions of identity and ethnicity. The results of the cultural contact occurring in a westernised pocket of the global labour market - in which social practices derive from the headquarters located in a society where ethnicity is self-ascribed - with Malaysian social actors to whom ethnicity is assigned will be of particular interest for social scientists and general readers alike.
    電子資源: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-561-7
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