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Title Global cities at work : new migrant divisions of labour / by Jane Wills [and others]
Published London : Pluto Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (257 pages) : electronic book
Contents Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Photos -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 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 Among 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
Summary Exposes Londons reliance on migrants and explores the implications of this for employment, politics and policy. This book is about the people who always get taken for granted. The people who clean our offices and trains, care for our elders andchange the sheets on the bed
In Academic Library
Subject Migrant labour
Social Science -- Emigration & Immigration.
Form Electronic book
Author Wills, Jane
ISBN 9780745327983
0745327982
9781849644020
1849644020
9781783715398
1783715391