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Essential Work, Disposable Workers - Migration, Capitalism and Class (Paperback)
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Essential Work, Disposable Workers - Migration, Capitalism and Class (Paperback)
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In recent years waves of migration from the Middle East, Latin
America and Africa to Europe and North America have been met with a
corresponding rise in anti-immigrant, far-right populism in host
countries, placing the question of migration at the forefront of
politics and social movements. In this sweeping account, Henaway
seeks to understand these patterns through contextualizing global
migration within a history of global capitalism, class formation
and the financialization of migration. As globalization
intensifies, workers everywhere are forced to compete for wages --
not through foreign investment and outsourcing, but through an
increasingly mobile working class. Henaway rejects the dominant
responses of restricting or "managing" migration through temporary
worker programs, proposing that stopping a race to the bottom for
all working people involves building solidarity with migrant worker
struggles for decent work and justice. Through examining the
organizing strategies of migrant workers at giants like Amazon and
Wal-Mart as well as discount retailers like Dollarama and Sports
Direct, the immense power and agency of precarious workers in
global companies like Uber or Airbnb, the successful resistance of
taxi drivers and fast food workers around the world, and the
contemporary mass labour movement organized by new unions and
workers' centres, Henaway shows how migrant demands and strategies
can help shape radical working class politics.
General
Imprint: |
Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd
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Country of origin: |
Canada |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
Authors: |
Mostafa Henaway
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Foreword by: |
Harsha Walia
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Dimensions: |
1mm (H) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
320 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-77363-225-4 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-77363-225-6 |
Barcode: |
9781773632254 |
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