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Mobility strategies, ‘mobility differentials’ and ‘transnational exit’: the experiences of precarious migrants in London’s hospitality jobs
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The authors explored the patterns of occupational and geographical mobility of migrant hospitality workers, drawing on participatory research in London, focusing on the ways in which migrants strolled through the UK and Ireland.Abstract:
This article explores the patterns of occupational and geographical mobility of migrant hospitality workers, drawing on participatory research in London. It focuses on the ways in which migrants st...read more
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Managing the Margins: Gender, Citizenship, and the International Regulation of Precarious Employment
TL;DR: A broader view on gender inequalities and the production of wellbeing, with the capability approach serving as the theoretical connection between the chapters, is presented in this paper. But the description of the theory remains lacking amidst numerous references that point the reader towards clarification elsewhere.
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'Flexible' workers for 'flexible' jobs? The labour market function of A8 migrant labour in the UK
David McCollum,Allan Findlay +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a large quantity of interviews with low-wage employers and recruiters is used to examine the role served by East-Central European migrant labour in the UK labour market, to question whether this function is distinct from conventional understandings of the function of migrant labour and explore how employer practices and other processes ‘produce’ these employment relations.
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Precarity, gender and care in the neoliberal academy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the rise in precarious academic employment in Ireland as an outcome of the higher education restructuring following OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), government initiatives and post-crisis austerity.
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Reworking labour practices: on the agency of unorganized mobile migrant construction workers
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the agency of migrant construction workers and the ways they negotiate and navigate an increasingly flexible and pan-European labour market, arguing that the precarious employment context limits opportunities for effective collective action and unionization, and that workers employ a wide range of strategies to "get by" and "get ahead".
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Continuity and Change in Labor Process Analysis Forty Years After Labor and Monopoly Capital
TL;DR: Braverman's labor and monopoly capital tapped into a late twentieth century sense that work while appearing ever safer, cleaner and more automated, was actually, less skilled, more controlled, and...
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Contested Terrain: The Transformation of the Workplace in the Twentieth Century
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The Endogeneity between Language and Earnings: International Analyses
Barry R. Chiswick,Paul W. Miller +1 more
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