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Contested ‘respectability’: gender and labour in the life stories of Tanzanian women and men in the hospitality industry
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Contested ‘respectability’: gender and labour in the life stories of Tanzanian women and men in the hospitality industry
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Fischer, Gundula
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LABOUR
GENDER TANZANIA EAST AFRICA |
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Published online: 30 May 2018
Although ‘disrespectability’ has been discerned as an important discourse that accompanies Tanzanian women’s engagement in hospitality jobs, it remains unclear how they counter this devaluation and whether their male co-workers are affected as well. Using a life-story methodology with a sample of 20 male and female employees, this study shows how men and women are unevenly hit by the assignment of ‘shame’ and how they resist. Better pay and more professional training could improve workers’ standing, but might also trigger new processes of closure detrimental to gender equity. Peer Review |
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2019-08-29T10:28:03Z
2019-08-29T10:28:03Z 2018 |
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Journal Article
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Fischer, G. (2018). Contested ‘respectability’: gender and labour in the life stories of Tanzanian women and men in the hospitality industry. Journal of Eastern African Studies, 12(3), 575-593.
1753-1055 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/103461 |
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en
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CC-BY-4.0
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575-593
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Journal of Eastern African Studies
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