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 Goncalves and Helen Kelly-Holmes

Chapter 2

"Jobs for Life"?: Mining Temporalities in a Transforming Arctic Periphery

By Sari Pietikaeinen 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 Jiri Homolac

Chapter 10

Physical work, customer service or teamwork? Language requirements for seasonal cleaning work in the booming Arctic tourism industry

By Maiju Stroemmer

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