Given the above discussion it is unsurprising to see a long history of support
for the proposition that tourism and hospitality remains a poor employing sector.
From Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London in the 1930s to recent work by the
likes of Price (1994), Kelliher and Perrett (2001), Kelliher and Johnson (1997) and
McGunnigle and Jameson (2000), the dominant paradigm has tended to stress the
negative aspects of working in the sector. For example, McGunnigle and Jameson