Some conceptual issues in the study of hospitality industry employment

The research papers which constitute this thesis represent a continuous record of research in the field of employee relations in the hospitality industry with a particular emphasis on theoretical and conceptual issues. The thesis is especially concerned with the relationships between the pursuit of industrial sociology in general as a field of study and industrial sociology research in the hospitality industry, seeking to explore and establish means by which, conceptually, the latter can be more adequately informed by, and integrated into, the former. Thus, particular perspectives evolved in the narrow confines of labour research into hospitality organizations are challenged in the context of wider themes and concerns emanating from the broader field of industrial sociology. At the same time, the thesis comprises works which, taken together, seek clarification, elaboration and synthesis of the field of employee relations in the hospitality industry for the purpose of establishing a significant springboard from which further theoretical and empirical studies may be developed and dependency on the need to excavate existing scholarship be reduced.

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