1st Edition
Language, Global Mobilities, Blue-Collar Workers and Blue-collar Workplaces
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Language, Global Mobilities, and Blue-collar Workers and Workplaces: An Introduction
By Kellie Gonçalves and Helen Kelly-Holmes
Chapter 2
"Jobs for Life"?: Mining Temporalities in a Transforming Arctic Periphery
By Sari Pietikäinen and Kori Allan
Chapter 3
"Tant qu’ils comprennent": mobile workers and the language ideologies of resource extraction
By Mireille McLaughlin
Chapter 4
Researching language at work in public and hidden domains. Historical time and temporal contextualization
By Florian Hiss
Chapter 5
Spanish bonnes in 1960s Paris: Occupational narratives from transnational migrants in later life
By David Divita
Chapter 6
Investigating language use in immigrant businesses: Workplace practices of a Thai massage salon owner in Germany
By Stefan K. Serwe
Chapter 7
Language Practices through the Lens of the Neoliberal Imaginary in Kurdish-Owned Eating Establishments in Istanbul
By Anne Schluter
Chapter 8
The policy and institutional discourse of communication ability: The case of (migrant) eldercare workers in Japan
By Ruriko Otomo
Chapter 9
Evolving private labor markets and the (non-) acquisition of language
By Tamah Sherman and Jiří Homoláč
Chapter 10
Physical work, customer service or teamwork? Language requirements for seasonal cleaning work in the booming Arctic tourism industry
By Maiju Strömmer
Chapter 11
"The Filipinos, they can do it" - Migrant workers in a multilingual water manufacturing company in Saipan
By Dominique B. Hess
Chapter 12
Blue-collar work and multilingualism: ‘C’est tough’
By Alastair Pennycook
Biography
Kellie Gonçalves is a post-doctoral fellow at Multiling: Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan at the University of Oslo, Norway.// Helen Kelly-Holmes is Professor of Applied Languages in the School of Modern Languages and Applied Linguistics at the University of Limerick, Ireland.
