Migrant Labour

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Migrant Organizing on the New Fault Lines of Global Capitalism From: Essential Work Disposable Workers View Fernwood Publishing	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 …	Mostafa Henaway	14	2023	$1.40 Add
From Migrant Workers Fight for the Entire Working Class From: Essential Work Disposable Workers View Fernwood Publishing	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 …	Mostafa Henaway	12	2023	$1.20 Add
From Neoliberal Migration Takes Hold From: Essential Work Disposable Workers View Fernwood Publishing	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 …	Mostafa Henaway	15	2023	$1.50 Add
From New Forms of Organizing From: Essential Work Disposable Workers View Fernwood Publishing	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 …	Mostafa Henaway	19	2023	$1.90 Add
From October 2020: Migrant Workers and COVID-19 From: Spin Doctors View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter focuses on how Covid-19 impacted migrant workers in Canada. Loreto discuss the work and living conditions of various farms in Canada during Covid-19, as well as how the government …	Nora Loreto	23	2021	$2.30 Add
From NEW! Part 1 A Child of History From: Harvesting Freedom View Between The Lines	Part 1 discusses Gabriel Allahdua life in Mabouya Valley, St. Lucia, including his family life, education, his interest in agriculture, early career as a teacher, and time in Guyana. Part 1 also …	Edward Dunsworth; Gabriel Allahdua	55	2023	$5.50 Add
From NEW! Part 2 A Migrant Farm Worker From: Harvesting Freedom View Between The Lines	Part 2 discusses Gabriel Allahdua’s time working in a greenhouse in Leamington, Ontario, the "migrant farm worker capital of Canada", including the intense workplace conditions, …	Edward Dunsworth; Gabriel Allahdua	61	2023	$6.10 Add
From NEW! Part 3 Status for All From: Harvesting Freedom View Between The Lines	Part 3 details Gabriel Allahdua’s activist work against the injustices that migrant workers experience in Canada. Part 3 also explained Allahdua’s process of leaving the program and …	Edward Dunsworth; Gabriel Allahdua	37	2023	$3.70 Add
From Precarious Work Requires Precarious Workers From: Essential Work Disposable Workers View Fernwood Publishing	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 …	Mostafa Henaway	12	2023	$1.20 Add
From NEW! Preface From: Harvesting Freedom View Between The Lines	Included in the preface is the poem I Am Many Things as well as the details of Gabriel Allahdua’s early life in St.Lucia. The preface also discusses the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program …	Edward Dunsworth	13	2023	$1.30 Add
Sick and Tired Health and Safety Inequalities	Bringing together a multidisciplinary group of experts from the fields of labour studies, public health, ergonomics, epidemiology, sociology and law, Sick and Tired examines the …		203		View
From Striking for Status From: Essential Work Disposable Workers View Fernwood Publishing	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, marginalized …	Mostafa Henaway	10	2023	$1.00 Add
From NEW! The Bellingham Riot From: White Riot View Arsenal Pulp Press	In this chapter, Paul Englesberg describes the anti-Asian riots that took place in Washington State in 1907. Englesberg explores how the violent riots against the Punjabi labourers in Washington …	Paul Englesberg	12	2023	$1.20 Add
From The Changing Nature of Work in Canada Impact on the Health of Workers From: Sick and Tired View Fernwood Publishing	Data Sources Labour Market Participation Immigrants and Permanent Residents Temporary Foreign Workers Self-Employed and Employed Workers Part-Time, Overtime and Absences Information Gaps Emerging …	Peter Smith	15	2018	$1.50 Add
From The Gig Is Up From: Essential Work Disposable Workers View Fernwood Publishing	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 to …	Mostafa Henaway	10	2023	$1.00 Add
From The Long Struggle for Status From: Essential Work Disposable Workers View Fernwood Publishing	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 …	Mostafa Henaway	16	2023	$1.60 Add