Jane Wills & Kavita Datta 
Global Cities At Work [EPUB ebook] 
New Migrant Divisions of Labour

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 international migration that have been central to contemporary processes of globalisation.



It also raises the level of debate about migrant labour, encouraging us to look behind the headlines. The authors ask us to take a politically informed view of our urban labour markets and to prioritise the issue of poverty in underemployed communities.

Table of Content

List of tables

List of figures

List of plates

List of acronyms

Acknowledgements

1. Deregulation, migration and the new world of work

2. Global city labour markets and London’s new migrant division of labour

3. London’s low paid foreign-born workers

4. Living and remaking London’s ethnic and gender divisions

5. Tactics of survival amongst migrant workers in London

6. Relational lives: Migrants, London and the rest of the world

7. Remaking the city: Immigration and post-secular politics in London today

8 Just geographies of (im)migration

Appendices

References

Index

About the author

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, ethnicity and urban labour markets. She has also worked as a consultant on structural adjustment and urban poverty at the World Bank. She is the author of Global Cities At Work (Pluto, 2009).