Women and Tourist Work in Jamaica - Seven Miles of Sandy Beach

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.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Brief History of Caribbean and Jamaican Tourism
Chapter 2: Tourism in Negril, The Capital of Casual
Chapter 3: Women, Work and Tourism
Chapter 4: Welcome to Negril
Chapter 5: Entrepreneurs
Chapter 6: Nightlife
Conclusion: Women Tourist Workers in The Capital of Casual

About the author

By Augusta Lynn Bolles

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.

Product details

• Authors: Augusta Lynn Bolles
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2023
• EAN: 9781793615589
• ISBN: 978-1-79361-558-9
• No. of pages: 170
• Series: The Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Jamaica, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls