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1 online resource (285 p.) |
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IMISCOE Research Series |
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IMISCOE research series.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Preface -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Invisible Migrants -- 1.1 On Route to New Spitalfields Night Market -- 1.2 New Spitalfields -- 1.3 Ethnicisation of Work at New Spitalfields -- 1.4 Half-Rejected, Half-Permitted Migrant Workers -- 1.4.1 Who Is Called a 'Migrant' Worker? Who Is Not and Why Not? -- 1.4.2 Half-Rejected Migrants -- 1.4.3 Half-Permitted -- 1.5 Researching Nightwork -- 1.6 Nightnography -- 1.7 The Nightnographer Explained -- 1.8 Post-circadian Capitalism |
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1.8.1 The Global City and the Problems with Work -- 1.8.2 Under-the-Skin Precarity -- 1.8.3 Fragmentation vs. Cooperation -- 1.9 Chapter Overviews -- References -- Chapter 2: Nightnography: We Are Not Night Creatures -- 2.1 Nightnography -- 2.2 Autoethnography: A Migrant, Apprentice and Nightnographer -- 2.3 Multi-positionality -- 2.3.1 The Migrant -- 2.3.2 The Apprentice Loader -- 2.3.3 The Nightnographer (Fig. 2.3) -- 2.4 Nightnographer, Explained -- 2.5 Nightnographic Storytelling in Migration Studies -- 2.6 Data Collection Using Embodied, Cyber-ethnographic and Visual Tools |
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2.6.1 Field Notes and Mental Notes -- 2.6.2 Body Notes -- 2.6.3 Digital (Self)Tracking -- 2.7 Returning from the Dark -- 2.8 Final Act -- References -- Chapter 3: Half-Rejected, Half-Permitted Migrant Workers -- 3.1 Migrant Workers -- 3.2 Migration Trends -- 3.3 Half-Rejected Migrant Workers -- 3.4 Half-Permitted Migrant Workers -- 3.5 Debating the Global City -- 3.6 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4: Intersecting Hierarchies of Nightwork -- 4.1 The Corporation of London -- 4.2 The FruitVeg Company -- 4.2.1 Executives -- 4.2.2 The Workfloor Manager -- 4.2.3 Salespeople -- 4.2.4 The Foreman |
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4.2.5 Checkmen -- 4.2.6 Loaders and Forklift Drivers -- 4.2.7 Women at the Market -- Cashiers -- Café Servers -- 4.3 Segmentation at the Night Market -- 4.4 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: The Normalisation of Nightwork -- 5.1 Transition from Circadian to Post-circadian, 24/7 Capitalism -- 5.1.1 Neo-liberalisation -- 5.1.2 Global Dispossession -- 5.1.3 The Intensification of Labour -- 5.1.4 Alterations to Time Regimentation -- 5.1.5 The Global City -- 5.2 Nightworkers -- 5.2.1 Lexa -- 5.2.2 Basrí -- 5.2.3 Gică -- 5.2.4 Logan -- 5.3 The Normalisation of Nightwork and Its Consequences |
| Summary |
This book captures the hidden labour of migrant nightworkers in 24/7 London. It argues that late capitalism normalises nightwork, yet refuses to recognise the associated problems, from lack of decent working conditions to the seizure of the workers private time for self-development, family and social life. The book shows how the articulation of nightworkers subjectivities and socialities happens at the intersection between migration, precarity and nightwork, and traces how each of these dimensions magnifies the lived experience of the others. It further reveals that any possibilities for cooperation or solidarity in the workplace between migrant nightworkers become fragile and secondary to their survival of the nightshift. It also elucidates the mechanisms that hinder cohesion between vulnerable groups placed temporally and socially on a different par to the mainstream societies. As such, this book is an excellent resource for labour regulators, experts and student researchers in migration, work and gender |
| Bibliography |
References -- Chapter 6: Habitus of Nightwork -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Embodied Histories -- 6.2.1 Lexa -- 6.2.2 Basrí -- 6.2.3 Gică -- 6.2.4 Logan -- 6.3 Habitus of Nightwork -- References -- Chapter 7: Embodied Precariousness -- 7.1 Under My Skin -- 7.1.1 Becoming a Nightworker -- 7.1.2 Becoming a Loader -- 7.1.3 Working as a Loader -- 7.2 Debating Precarity and Precariousness -- 7.3 Embodied Precariousness -- References -- Chapter 8: Fragmented Cooperation -- 8.1 Competition and Cooperation at New Spitalfields Market -- 8.2 Weakened Cooperation -- 8.3 Short-Lived Cooperation |
| Notes |
8.4 Embodied Cooperation |
| Bibliography |
Inlcudes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 06, 2023) |
| Subject |
Foreign workers -- England -- London -- Social conditions
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Night work -- Social aspects -- England -- London
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Foreign workers -- Social conditions.
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Night work -- Social aspects.
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England -- London.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783031361869 |
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3031361865 |
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