Global cities at work : new migrant divisions of labour
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Bibliographic Information
Global cities at work : new migrant divisions of labour
Pluto, 2010
- : pbk.
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Other authors: Kavita Datta, Yara Evans, Joanna Herbert, Jon May and Cathy McIlwaine
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
List of tables
List of figures
List of plates
List of acronyms
Acknowledgements
1. Deregulation, migration and the new world of work
2. Global city labour markets and London's new migrant division of labour
3. London's low paid foreign-born workers
4. Living and remaking London's ethnic and gender divisions
5. Tactics of survival amongst migrant workers in London
6. Relational lives: Migrants, London and the rest of the world
7. Remaking the city: Immigration and post-secular politics in London today
8 Just geographies of (im)migration
Appendices
References
Index
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