Just work? : migrant workers' struggles today / edited by Aziz Choudry and Mondli Hlatshwayo.

Date:
2016
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"'Just work?' offers a wide range of new grassroots perspectives on global migrant labour organising today. From diverse workers' organisations in South Africa to migrant worker resistance in the Gulf, from forest workers in the Czech Republic to domestic workers' unions in Hong Kong, this book brings together a wealth of lived experiences and hidden struggles for the first time. Just Work? proves that migrant workers are finding innovative ways of resisting exploitation and challenging neoliberal immigration measures, both within traditional labour orgnaisations and beyond."--From publisher.

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London : Pluto Press, 2016.

Physical description

xii, 268 pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm.

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Contents

Just work? Migrant workers, capitalist globalisation and resistance / Aziz Choudry and Mondli Hlatshwayo -- pt. I: Africa and the Middle East -- Xenophobia, resilience, and resistance of immigrant workers in South Africa: collective and individual responses / Mondli Hlatshwayo -- States of exclusion: migrant work in the Gulf Arab states / Adam Hanieh -- Undocumented migrant workers in Nigeria: labouring in the shadows of regional integration / Baba Ayelabola -- pt. II: Europe -- Migrant rights activism and the tree workers case in the Czech Republic / Marek Caněk -- Towards a history of the Latin American Workers Association 2002-12 / Jake Lagnado -- Lessons from migrant workers' organisation and mobilisation in Switzerland / Vasco Pedrina -- pt. III: Asia and the Pacific -- Migrant unionism in Hong Kong: a case study of experiences of foreign domestic workers in union organising / Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants -- The possibilities and limitations of organising immigrant workers in Japan: the case of the local union of the All-Japan Metal and Information Machinery Workers' Union / Hiroshi Ueki -- Disaster capitalism and migrant worker organising in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Edward Miller and Dennis Maga -- pt. IV: North America -- Migrante, abante: building Filipino migrant worker leadership through participatory action research / Valerie Francisco -- Temporary employment agency workers in Montreal: immigrant and migrant workers' struggles in Canada / Aziz Choudry and Mostafa Henaway.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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    History of Medicine
    EH.U.AA10
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  • 9780745335834
  • 0745335837