Vulnerability, exploitation and migrants : insecure work in a globalised economy /
Vulnerability, exploitation and migrants : insecure work in a globalised economy /
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- xxii, 272 p. ; 22 cm.
- Migration, diasporas and citizenship .
Includes bibliographic references and index.
List of figures and tables -- Acknowldegements -- Notes on contributors -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction / Part I : the globalisation of vulnerability. 1 : private governance and the problems of trafficking and slavery in global supply chains / Part II : migrant workers, unfreedom and forced labour. 4 : social reproduction and migrant domestic labour in Canada and the UK : towards a multi-dimensional concept of subordination / Part III : the vulnerability of asylum seekers. 7 : the contribution of UK Asylum Policy 1999-2010 to the conditions for the exploitation of migrant labour / Part IV : hidden fron view : the most exploited workers. 11 : sweatshop workers in Buenos Aires : the political economy of human trafficking in a peripheral country / Part V : interventions : tackling labour exploitation. 15 : global citizenship : the need for dignity and respect for migrants / Index. Loiuse Waite, Gary Craig, Hannah Lewis and Klara Skrivankova -- Nicola Philips. 2 : the political economy of outsourcing / John Smith. 3 : labour, exploitation and migration in Western Europe : an international political economy perspective -- Kendra Strauss. 5 : labour exploitation of non-EU migrants in Slovakia : patterns, implications and structural violence / Matej Blazek. 6 : understanding and evaluating UK efforts to tackle forced labour / Alex Balch -- Tom Vickers. 8 : precarity at work : asylum rights and paradoxes of labour in Sweden / Maja Sager. 9 : Bangladeshi fruit vendors in the streets of Paris : vulnerable asylum seekers of self-imposed victims of expolitation? / Donghyuk Park. 10 : refused asylum seekers as the hyper-exploited / Loiuse Waite, Hannah Lewis, Stuart Hodkinson and Peter Dwyer -- Jerónimo Montero Bressán and Eliana Ferradás Abalo. 12 : experiences of forced labour among UK-based Chinese migrant workers : exploring vulnerability and protection in times of empire / Rebecca Lawthorn, Carolyn Kagan, Sue Baines, Sandy Lo, Sylvia Sham, Lisa Mok, Mark Greenwood and Scott Gaule. 13 : the working lives of undocumented migrants : social capital, individual agency and mobility / Alice Bloch, Leena Kumarappan and Sonia McKay. 14 : slavery in the twenty-first century : a review of domestic work in the UK / Ismail Idowu Salih -- Domenica Urzi. 16 : winning a living wage : the legacy of living wage campaigns / Ana Lopes and Tim Hall. 17 : forced labour and ethical trade in the Indian garment industry / Annie Delaney and Jane Tate. 18 : the staff wanted initiative : preventing exploitation, forced labour and trafficking in the UK hospitality industry / Joanna Ewart-James and Neill Wilkins --
Globalisation, the economic crisis and related policies of austerity have led to a growth in extreme exploitation at work, with migrants particularly vulnerable. This book explores the lives of the growing numbers of severely exploited labourers in the world today, questioning how we can respond to such globalised patterns of extreme inequality.
9781137460400 (hardback) 9781137460400: £65.00 1137460407 (hardback)
2015019743
Labor market--Foreign workers--Moral and ethical aspects.
Migrant labor--Economic conditions.
Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects--Social aspects.
Migrant labor--Social conditions.
Migrant labor--Legal status, laws, etc.
Precarious employment.
Exploitation.
Labor and globalization.
331.544 / WAI
Includes bibliographic references and index.
List of figures and tables -- Acknowldegements -- Notes on contributors -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction / Part I : the globalisation of vulnerability. 1 : private governance and the problems of trafficking and slavery in global supply chains / Part II : migrant workers, unfreedom and forced labour. 4 : social reproduction and migrant domestic labour in Canada and the UK : towards a multi-dimensional concept of subordination / Part III : the vulnerability of asylum seekers. 7 : the contribution of UK Asylum Policy 1999-2010 to the conditions for the exploitation of migrant labour / Part IV : hidden fron view : the most exploited workers. 11 : sweatshop workers in Buenos Aires : the political economy of human trafficking in a peripheral country / Part V : interventions : tackling labour exploitation. 15 : global citizenship : the need for dignity and respect for migrants / Index. Loiuse Waite, Gary Craig, Hannah Lewis and Klara Skrivankova -- Nicola Philips. 2 : the political economy of outsourcing / John Smith. 3 : labour, exploitation and migration in Western Europe : an international political economy perspective -- Kendra Strauss. 5 : labour exploitation of non-EU migrants in Slovakia : patterns, implications and structural violence / Matej Blazek. 6 : understanding and evaluating UK efforts to tackle forced labour / Alex Balch -- Tom Vickers. 8 : precarity at work : asylum rights and paradoxes of labour in Sweden / Maja Sager. 9 : Bangladeshi fruit vendors in the streets of Paris : vulnerable asylum seekers of self-imposed victims of expolitation? / Donghyuk Park. 10 : refused asylum seekers as the hyper-exploited / Loiuse Waite, Hannah Lewis, Stuart Hodkinson and Peter Dwyer -- Jerónimo Montero Bressán and Eliana Ferradás Abalo. 12 : experiences of forced labour among UK-based Chinese migrant workers : exploring vulnerability and protection in times of empire / Rebecca Lawthorn, Carolyn Kagan, Sue Baines, Sandy Lo, Sylvia Sham, Lisa Mok, Mark Greenwood and Scott Gaule. 13 : the working lives of undocumented migrants : social capital, individual agency and mobility / Alice Bloch, Leena Kumarappan and Sonia McKay. 14 : slavery in the twenty-first century : a review of domestic work in the UK / Ismail Idowu Salih -- Domenica Urzi. 16 : winning a living wage : the legacy of living wage campaigns / Ana Lopes and Tim Hall. 17 : forced labour and ethical trade in the Indian garment industry / Annie Delaney and Jane Tate. 18 : the staff wanted initiative : preventing exploitation, forced labour and trafficking in the UK hospitality industry / Joanna Ewart-James and Neill Wilkins --
Globalisation, the economic crisis and related policies of austerity have led to a growth in extreme exploitation at work, with migrants particularly vulnerable. This book explores the lives of the growing numbers of severely exploited labourers in the world today, questioning how we can respond to such globalised patterns of extreme inequality.
9781137460400 (hardback) 9781137460400: £65.00 1137460407 (hardback)
2015019743
Labor market--Foreign workers--Moral and ethical aspects.
Migrant labor--Economic conditions.
Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects--Social aspects.
Migrant labor--Social conditions.
Migrant labor--Legal status, laws, etc.
Precarious employment.
Exploitation.
Labor and globalization.
331.544 / WAI