Mostafa Henaway

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Essential Work Disposable Workers

Migration, Capitalism, and Class

Across the world we are witnessing daily the lethal effects of a rapid and scary hardening of borders, ignited and justified by manufactured fear and scarcity. In such conditions, highly … 230 View
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Foreword / Introduction: Essential Yet Disposable

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This section includes the foreword and introduction of this book. In the introduction, Mostafa Heneway describes the political landscape that facilitates the exploitation of migrant workers and … 14 $1.40 Add
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Neoliberal Migration Takes Hold

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This chapter focuses on four countries in the Global South to illustrate how the implementation of neoliberal policies has not led to development but has turned them into major labour-exporting … 15 $1.50 Add
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Keeping Global Capitalism Afloat

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This chapter examines how remittances play a crucial role within global capitalism. Remittances reinforce a pattern of migration from the Global South to the North, increasingly necessary for … 9 $0.90 Add
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Border Militarization, Internalization and Externalization

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Borders have become a means through which states can dispose of unwanted migrants through deportation and award those deemed legitimate with permanent residency. This has led to the increased … 10 $1.00 Add
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Managing Migration

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This chapter examines how, since 2006, Canada has constructed an immigration regime that centres temporary migrant labour — the ideal immigration regime in service of global capitalism. … 13 $1.30 Add
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Precarious Work Requires Precarious Workers

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This chapter specifically follows the rise of temporary placement agencies as a tool of employers to utilize undocumented, precarious and racialized migrants for capital. The shift from … 12 $1.20 Add
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From Farm to Table

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This chapter demonstrates the growing size and power of the food industry in the global economy across its supply chains. Capital-intensive farming, food-processing and major food retailers and … 17 $1.70 Add
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Just-in-Time Workers for Just-in-Time Distribution

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This chapter focuses on how the rise of just-in-time distribution, a sector of growing importance to global capitalism, has been fuelled with the rise of just-in-time employment — meaning a … 11 $1.10 Add
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The Gig Is Up

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This chapter is a small love note to the iwc (Immigrant Workers Centre) for always being willing to experiment to find new ways to build leadership and solidarity. It’s difficult for unions … 10 $1.00 Add
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New Forms of Organizing

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This chapter describes how worker centres emerged as a new model of organizing migrant workers in response to the sweeping global economic transformations of neoliberalism, described in the first … 19 $1.90 Add
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Migrant Organizing on the New Fault Lines of Global Capitalism

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This chapter illustrates how new unions and worker centres emerged to successfully organize in global cities like Toronto, New York and London and within the chokepoints of logistics hubs for … 14 $1.40 Add
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Migrant Workers Fight for the Entire Working Class

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This chapter is about how migrant and racialized worker organizations took leadership in broad-based campaigns to improve conditions for the entire working class. As one example, the chapter … 12 $1.20 Add
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Striking for Status

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This chapter describes why undocumented migrants’ struggles for status are fundamentally about workers’ rights. In certain moments, like 2006 and 2017 in the US and 2008 in France, … 10 $1.00 Add
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The Long Struggle for Status

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This chapter is an effort to convey the urgency of permanent status for migrants. The chapter examines the campaigns of self-organized migrants who have constructed communities of struggle that … 16 $1.60 Add
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Conclusion: Freedom of Movement for People, Not Capital

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In the conclusion to this book, Heneway discusses capitalism as an economic system, and once again breaks down the impact of globalization on trade and labour. 10 $1.00 Add