Housekeeping by Design: Hotels and Labor by David Brody, a Professor of Design Studies at Parsons, the New School for Design, is a social history of work and tourism in the hotel industry, free for a limited time courtesy of publisher The University of Chicago Press.
This is their featured Free eBook of the Month selection for May, and is an accessibly written look behind the scenes at hotels around the US, as the author travels and talks with the housekeeping staff, revealing the amount of labour and design which goes into making a smooth workflow to house guests, as well as giving a history of occupational conditions and related trends over the past century and more.
Offered worldwide through Tuesday, May 31st, available from the publisher’s website.
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