Global Cities At Work

New Migrant Divisions of Labour

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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Beskrivning

This book is about the people who always get taken for granted. The people who clean our offices and trains, care for our elders and change the sheets on the bed. Global Cities at Work draws on testimony collected from more than 800 foreign-born workers employed in low-paid jobs in London during the early years of the twenty-first century.This book breaks new ground in linking London's new migrant division of labour to the twin processes of subcontracting and increased international migration that have been central to contemporary processes of globalisation.It also raises the level of debate about migrant labour, encouraging us to look behind the headlines. The authors ask us to take a politically informed view of our urban labour markets and to prioritise the issue of poverty in underemployed communities.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2009-12-31
Mått:150 x 230 x 20 mm
Vikt:482 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Pluto Press
ISBN:9780745327990

Utforska kategorier

Migration inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Jane Wills works at the Department of Geography and The City Centre, Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author of Global Cities At Work (Pluto, 2009).Kavita Datta works at the Department of Geography and The City Centre, Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author of Global Cities At Work (Pluto, 2009).Yara Evans works at the Department of Geography and The City Centre, Queen Mary, University of London. Her academic background is in Human Geography and she is the author of Global Cities At Work (Pluto, 2009).Joanna Herbert teaches at the Department of Geography and The City Centre, Queen Mary, University of London. She is the author of Global Cities At Work (Pluto, 2009).John May is at the Department of Geography and The City Centre, Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of Global Cities At Work (Pluto, 2009).Cathy McIlwaine is a lecturer at Queen Mary and Westfield. She has carried out research in the Caribbean and Costa Rica and the Philippines in the areas of gender, ethnicity and urban labour markets. She has also worked as a consultant on structural adjustment and urban poverty at the World Bank. She is the author of Global Cities At Work (Pluto, 2009).

Recensioner i media

'The voices of migrant workers come alive in these pages'

Innehållsförteckning

List of tablesList of figuresList of platesList of acronymsAcknowledgements1. Deregulation, migration and the new world of work2. Global city labour markets and London's new migrant division of labour3. London's low paid foreign-born workers 4. Living and remaking London's ethnic and gender divisions5. Tactics of survival amongst migrant workers in London6. Relational lives: Migrants, London and the rest of the world7. Remaking the city: Immigration and post-secular politics in London today8 Just geographies of (im)migrationAppendicesReferencesIndex