Serving the New Economy:
Critical Perspectives on Hospitality and Tourism Work
A CRWS WorkshopOctober 13-14, 2006
Ramada Hotel and Suites Downtown, 300 Jarvis St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Growth sectors such as hospitality employ large numbers of women, migrants and people of colour, often in precarious situations. These workplaces are as much part of the ‘new’ economy as high-technology industries, but they do not promise the same benefits for marginalized workers.
This workshop brings together an international group of researchers from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds to share progressive research on tourism and hospitality work. The workshop will feature presentations on hospitality work from a critical perspective in four panels:
- Restructuring Hospitality and Tourism Work: Cross Sectoral Perspectives
- Marginalization and Hospitality Workers: Gender, Race, Class and Hospitality Nexus
- Hospitality Workers’ Capital
- Labour and the Regulation of Hospitality Work
Anna Pollert, WLRI - London Metropolitan University
Yvonne Guerrier, Roehampton University
D Rachel Sherman , Yale University
Dan Zuberi, University of British Columbia
Paul Watt, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College
Tessa Wright, WLRI - London Metropolitan University
Daniel Levinson Wilk, New York Historical Society
Vivian Shalla, University of Guelph
Yara Evans, Jane Wills, Kavita Datta, Joanna Herbert, Cathy McIlwayne, and Jon May, Queen Mary University of London
Judy Haiven, St Mary’s University
Ross A. Klein, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Registration Fee: $100 per participant (includes conference materials and lunches)
Preliminary Conference Agenda (PDF)
Preliminary Conference Agenda (Word)
Registration Form (PDF)
Registration Form (Word)
For more information, please contact:
Daphne Paszterko,
Project Co-ordinator, CRWS
Tel: 416-736-5612
E-mail: paszter@yorku.ca