Migrant Labour
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From  Managing Migration |
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. … | Mostafa Henaway | 13 | 2012 | $1.30 Add |
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From Precarious Work Requires Precarious Workers |
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 | 2012 | $1.20 Add |
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From  Which Side Are You On?Between Yellow Vests and Migrant Rights in the New Saskatchewan From: Divided |
This chapter highlights how policy makers responded to public cases of foreign worker exploitation and took seriously the state of precarity that defines migrant labour. | Andrew Stevens | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
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From From Farm to Table |
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 … | Mostafa Henaway | 17 | 2012 | $1.70 Add |
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From  Just TransitionFrom: Getting to Zero |
Discusses how the shift away from carbon-heavy industries should and could be done in a socially just way to ensure workers in sunset industries, Indigenous People, and immigrants will not be … | Tony Clarke | 30 | 2018 | $3.00 Add |
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From  NEW! The Bellingham RiotFrom: White Riot |
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 |
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From Just-in-Time Workers for Just-in-Time Distribution |
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 … | Mostafa Henaway | 11 | 2012 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! Census Making and City Building:Data Perspectives on the 1907 Anti-Asian Riots and the Development of Vancouver From: White Riot |
In this chapter, Yan provides critical context to understanding the 1907 anti-Asian riots in Vancouver. Yan discusses the anti-Asian racism and the unreliable data that led to an inflated number … | Andy Yan | 18 | 2023 | $1.80 Add |
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From  Immigrant Men’s and Women’s Occupational HealthQuestioning the Myths From: Sick and Tired |
The Myth of the Uneducated Immigrants The Myth of the Unhealthy Immigrants The Myth of the Unsafe Immigrants From Careless Workers to Vulnerable Workers Conclusions | Stephanie Premji | 12 | 2018 | $1.20 Add |
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From  October 2020: Migrant Workers and COVID-19From: Spin Doctors |
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 |
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From The Gig Is Up |
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 … | Mostafa Henaway | 10 | 2012 | $1.00 Add |
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From New Forms of Organizing |
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 | 2012 | $1.90 Add |
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From Compound Vulnerabilities and Creative StrategiesOccupational Health of Temporary Foreign Agricultural Workers From: Sick and Tired |
Last Resort or Permanently Temporary Solution? Health Risks and Consequences Challenges in Accessing Rights and Protections Barriers to Prevention and Protection Attempts to Address Challenges … | Janet McLaughlin | 14 | 2018 | $1.40 Add |
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From Migrant Organizing on the New Fault Lines of Global Capitalism |
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 | 2012 | $1.40 Add |
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From Migrant Workers Fight for the Entire Working Class |
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 | 2012 | $1.20 Add |
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From Striking for Status |
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, … | Mostafa Henaway | 10 | 2012 | $1.00 Add |
