Während der Corona-Pandemie ist für etliche Berufsgruppen eine enorme Diskrepanz zwischen “Systemrelevanz” und gesellschaftlicher Anerkennung beziehungsweise Wertschätzung deutlich geworden. Dies verweist auf die Frage nach den gesellschaftlichen Bewertungskriterien für Arbeit und...

Historical materialism -- Marxism, class and the service industry -- Service labour and value theory -- Retail and the circulation of commodities -- Monopoly capital and the sales effort -- Two stages of production and realisation -- A Marxist analysis of outsourcing -- Cleaning workers and...

The corporate micro-city Potsdamer Platz: cleaners' presence from below -- Characters from the corporate underworld: Alex, Ali, Luisa, and Marcel -- From feces to flowers: the sweat, shame, disgust, pride and fun of working with dirt -- Separate in the same boat: others and allies among cleaners...

Looking beyond the shiny surface of Potsdamer Platz, a designer micro-city within Berlin's city center, this book goes behind-the-scenes with the cleaners who pick up cigarette butts from sidewalks, scrape chewing gum from marble floors, wipe coffee stains from office desks and scrub public...

Die Reinigungskräfte sind eine besonders gefährdete Arbeitnehmergruppe, die vor Ausbeutung wenig gefeit ist. Gerade dort, wo gering Qualifizierte und Personen mit Migrationshintergrund arbeiten, kann davon ausgegangen werden, dass Sozialstandards unterlaufen werden, da sich diese Gruppe ihrer...

We compare beauty contests with first-price sealed-bid and scoring auctions, using data on public procurement of cleaning services in Swedish municipalities. The lowest submitted and winning bids are similar in all auction designs despite a higher price sensitivity of procurement bureaucrats in...

The text, consisting of two parts, presents conclusions from the exploratory research on the Polish female niche on the New York City immigrant labor market - cleaning. Part 1 points out the crucial character of the working class niches on the Western labor markets for the image of Poland and...

An interpretation of domestic cleaners' work as experienced by Polish immigrants in New York City is presented in this text. It argues that the elements of this work that cleaners appreciated themselves are the characteristics of the small immigrant enterprise whose place on the market relies...

Combinatorial procurement auctions enable suppliers to pass their potential cost synergies on to the procuring entity and may therefore lead to lower costs and enhance efficiency. However, bidders might find it profitable to inflate their stand-alone bids in order to favour their package bids....

Politicians expect green public procurement (GPP) to serve as an environmental policy instrument. However, in order for GPP to work as an effective policy instrument, it is important to take into consideration potential suppliers' decisions to participate in the procurement process, the total...

This paper investigates changes in collective bargaining policy in the German cleaning industry in recent years. It uses the Socio-economic Panel (GSOEP) to survey employees on employment conditions and expert interviews with key members of the industry to look at possible new paths of...

Die Tarifverträge zur Leih- bzw. Zeitarbeit haben eine massive Veränderung im Tarifgefüge des Gebäudereiniger-Handwerks zur Folge. Das Gebäudereiniger-Handwerk und die IG BAU vereinbarten zum 01.04.2004 einen Tarifvertrag, der im Untersuchungsbereich eine nominale Lohnabsenkung vorsah. Ziel...

Ausgehend von einem theoretisch und methodisch bewährten Datenmodell werden in der vorliegenden Studie repräsentative Daten zu den Arbeits- und Beschäftigungsbedingungen von Reiniger/innen (Gebäudereiniger-Handwerk, Reinigung "nach Hausfrauenart", Eigenreinigung des Öffentlichen Dienstes...