Migrant Labour

Showing 17–32 of 34 results

Title & Subtitle Abstract Contributors Pages Year Purchase
From
Migrant Organizing on the New Fault Lines of Global Capitalism

Migrant Organizing on the New Fault Lines of Global Capitalism

From: Essential Work Disposable Workers

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
From
Migrant Workers Fight for the Entire Working Class

Migrant Workers Fight for the Entire Working Class

From: Essential Work Disposable Workers

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
From
Neoliberal Migration Takes Hold

Neoliberal Migration Takes Hold

From: Essential Work Disposable Workers

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
From
New Forms of Organizing

New Forms of Organizing

From: Essential Work Disposable Workers

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
From
October 2020: Migrant Workers and COVID-19

October 2020: Migrant Workers and COVID-19

From: 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 … 23 $2.30 Add
From
Precarious Work Requires Precarious Workers

Precarious Work Requires Precarious Workers

From: Essential Work Disposable 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 … 12 $1.20 Add
Sick and Tired

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

Striking for Status

From: Essential Work Disposable Workers

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 … 10 $1.00 Add
From
The Bellingham Riot
NEW!

The Bellingham Riot

From: 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 … 12 $1.20 Add
From
The Changing Nature of Work in Canada

The Changing Nature of Work in Canada

Impact on the Health of Workers

From: Sick and Tired

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 … 15 $1.50 Add
From
The Gig Is Up

The Gig Is Up

From: Essential Work Disposable Workers

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 … 10 $1.00 Add
From
The Long Struggle for Status

The Long Struggle for Status

From: Essential Work Disposable Workers

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