Sustaining precarity : critically examining tourism and employment
Robinson, R. and Martins, A. and Solnet, D. and Baum, T. (2019) Sustaining precarity : critically examining tourism and employment. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 27 (7). pp. 1008-1025. ISSN 0966-9582 (https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2018.1538230)
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Abstract
There is consensus that the social, or people, dimension of sustainability including its workforce thematics are neglected in the tourism literature and policy despite its prevalence in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Premised on the understanding that sustainability is inherently set in neo-liberal discourses of progress, development and growth, we set about to investigate tourism’s performance principally relative to SDG, no. 8 (UN, 2015), which calls for 'decent work'. Underpinned by precarity, an emerging sociological concept applied in the workforce context, and adopting critical approaches, this paper presents a review of a sample of industry reports from global, regional and national levels. The study provides evidence that tourism sustains precarity vis-à-vis its employment practices. Our findings suggest that, counter to prevailing sustainability discourse, tourism (employment) sustains deep social cleavages and economic inequalities – a triumvirate of precariousness of work, precariousness at work and subsequent precariousness of life.
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Robinson, R., Martins, A., Solnet, D. and Baum, T. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5918-847X;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 65758 Dates: DateEvent3 July 2019Published16 January 2019Published Online12 October 2018Accepted4 April 2018SubmittedNotes: © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group Robinson, R. N. S., Martins, A., Solnet, D., & Baum, T. (2019). Sustaining precarity: critically examining tourism and employment. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 27(7), 1008–1025. https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2018.1538230 Subjects: Geography. Anthropology. Recreation Department: Strathclyde Business School > Work, Organisation and Employment Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 12 Oct 2018 08:56 Last modified: 24 Sep 2024 08:07 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/65758