This book is about the people who always get taken for granted. The people who clean our offices and trains, care for our elders and change the sheets on the bed. Global Cities at Work draws on testimony collected from more than 800 foreign-born workers employed in low-paid jobs in London during the early years of the twenty-first century.
This book breaks new ground in linking London’s new migrant division of labour to the twin processes of subcontracting and increased internati...
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Acknowledgements
1. Deregulation, migration and the new world of work
2. Global city labou...
Circa l’autore
Cathy Mc Ilwaine is a lecturer at Queen Mary and Westfield. She has carried out research in the Caribbean and Costa Rica and the Philippines in the areas of gender, e...