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Housekeeping by design : hotels and labor / David Brody.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, (c)2016.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780226389264
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • TX928 .H687 2016
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Theoretically checking in -- Vignette 2: Plaza memories -- Design and the chambermaid: Mary Bresnan's The practical hotel housekeeper and E.M. Statler's Service code -- Vignette 3: "for your safety" -- A textbook case: pedagogy and housekeeping -- Vignette 4: the hotel as mise-en-scène -- Laboriously unreal: design and hotel impossible -- Vignette 5: you're doing research where? -- Go green: design, hotels, and the sustainability paradox -- Vignette 6: Chicago and thick description -- "We truly listened to our guests": rethinking the redesign of the Hyatt Regency Chicago -- Conclusion: a Cinderella story.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction TX928 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn957525225

Includes bibliographies and index.

Vignette 1: booking a room -- Theoretically checking in -- Vignette 2: Plaza memories -- Design and the chambermaid: Mary Bresnan's The practical hotel housekeeper and E.M. Statler's Service code -- Vignette 3: "for your safety" -- A textbook case: pedagogy and housekeeping -- Vignette 4: the hotel as mise-en-scène -- Laboriously unreal: design and hotel impossible -- Vignette 5: you're doing research where? -- Go green: design, hotels, and the sustainability paradox -- Vignette 6: Chicago and thick description -- "We truly listened to our guests": rethinking the redesign of the Hyatt Regency Chicago -- Conclusion: a Cinderella story.

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