Jane Wills, Kavita Datta, Yara Evans, Joanna Herbert, Jon May, Cathy Mcilwaine

Global Cities At Work (eBook, ePUB)

New Migrant Divisions of Labour

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783715398
• Artikelnr.: 42654015

Autorenporträt

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).