Description
Book SynopsisIn 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.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
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
