1st Edition
Slavery and Liberation in Hotels, Restaurants and Bars
This is the first book to explore workforce slavery and liberation together within commercial hotel, restaurant and bar activities, the hospitality industry being particularly vulnerable to potential illegal action and reputational damage via involuntary involvement in human trafficking and sexual exploitation.
Slavery is the most oppressive form of labour exploitation and is illegal in Western Europe and most of the industrialised world. On the other hand, ‘neo-slavery’ oppresses the powerless through low pay and employment practices that predominantly serve the interests of the employer. This book explores the most exploitative forms of slavery, 'neo-slavery' and human trafficking in the hotel industry, and offers insights into empowerment through liberative trade unions and worker co-operatives. The study’s multifaceted cross-cultural approach includes in-depth chapters on Brazil and the Netherlands as well as a multitude of examples from the UK, exposing the topic as an international problem.
Written by international specialists, this significant book will appeal widely to upper-level students and researchers in hospitality, and specifically, to all those interested in human resource management in the hospitality and hotel industry, as well as human rights issues and business ethics.
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How would I feel? Slavery, neo-slavery, ethics and oppression
Conrad Lashley
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Slavery ancient and modern: global and national insights
Conrad Lashley
3
Slavery in Brazil: revelations from a destination
Roseane Barcellos Marques and Conrad Lashley
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When is a guest not a guest? Human trafficking in hotels in the Netherlands
Erwin van der Graff and Conrad Lashley
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Human trafficking and modern slavery in Europe’s hotels
Alexandros Paraskeva
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Neoliberalism: the empire strikes back
Conrad Lashley
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Neo-Slavery: and the weakest will suffer what they must!
Conrad Lashley
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Empowerment: engaging workforce enthusiasm?
Conrad Lashley
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Trade union membership: the resistance power of the collective
Conrad Lashley
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Worker co-operatives: justice and liberation
Conrad Lashley
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The way things are, or are they?
Conrad Lashley
Biography
Conrad Lashley is Professor Emeritus in Hospitality Studies as well as Editor Emeritus of Hospitality & Society and Senior Editor of Research in Hospitality Management.