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Just Work?: Migrant Workers´ Struggles Today
Aziz Choudry (Ed.)
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Description for Just Work?: Migrant Workers´ Struggles Today
Paperback. This global volume explores migration, precarious employment, transformation of paid work and the political actions of immigrant and migrant workers. Editor(s): Choudry, Aziz; Hlatshwayo, Mondli. Series: Wildcat. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JFFN; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 135. .
This book offers a vast range of grassroots perspectives on global migrant labour organisation in the twenty-first century. From workers' organisations in South African migrant worker resistance in the Gulf, from forest workers in the Czech Republic to domestic workers' structures in Hong Kong, this book brings together a wealth of lived experiences and hidden struggles for the first time. Highlighting the changing nature of frontline struggles against exploitation, Just Work? shows that migrant workers are finding new and innovative ways of resisting neoliberal immigration measures as they are forced to fight against the precarious nature of ... Read more
This book offers a vast range of grassroots perspectives on global migrant labour organisation in the twenty-first century. From workers' organisations in South African migrant worker resistance in the Gulf, from forest workers in the Czech Republic to domestic workers' structures in Hong Kong, this book brings together a wealth of lived experiences and hidden struggles for the first time. Highlighting the changing nature of frontline struggles against exploitation, Just Work? shows that migrant workers are finding new and innovative ways of resisting neoliberal immigration measures as they are forced to fight against the precarious nature of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Wildcat
Condition
New
Weight
360g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745335834
SKU
V9780745335834
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Aziz Choudry (Ed.)
Aziz Choudry is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Social Movement Learning and Knowledge Production in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University, and Visiting Professor at the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation, University of Johannesburg. He is editor of Activists and the Surveillance State (Pluto, 2018) and Just Work? Migrant Workers' Struggles Today (Pluto, 2016). ... Read more
Reviews for Just Work?: Migrant Workers´ Struggles Today
'An important intervention in the existing scholarship on migrant worker issues ... Richly rewarding'
Labour/Le Travail 'A valuable contribution and an important addition to the anthropology of work and migration studies. The scope of the book is impressive'
Anthropology of Work Review 'A fascinating read and a welcome antidote to migration scholarship that continues to disproportionately obsess over ... Read more
Labour/Le Travail 'A valuable contribution and an important addition to the anthropology of work and migration studies. The scope of the book is impressive'
Anthropology of Work Review 'A fascinating read and a welcome antidote to migration scholarship that continues to disproportionately obsess over ... Read more