TY - BOOK ID - 5532628 TI - Global cities at work : new migrant divisions of labour PY - 2010 SN - 9780745327990 9780745327983 0745327990 0745327982 1849644020 1783715391 9781849644020 PB - London ; New York : Pluto, DB - UniCat KW - Foreign workers KW - Minorities KW - Travailleurs étrangers KW - Minorités KW - Employment KW - Social conditions KW - Conditions sociales KW - Travail KW - England KW - Angleterre KW - Emigration and immigration KW - Emigration et immigration KW - Migrant labor KW - Economic aspects. KW - Travailleurs étrangers KW - Minorités KW - Labor, Migrant KW - Migrant workers KW - Migrants (Migrant labor) KW - Migratory workers KW - Transient labor KW - Social conditions. KW - Employees KW - Casual labor KW - Alien labor KW - Aliens KW - Foreign labor KW - Guest workers KW - Guestworkers KW - Immigrant labor KW - Immigrant workers KW - Migrant labor (Foreign workers) KW - Migrant workers (Foreign workers) KW - Ethnic minorities KW - Foreign population KW - Minority groups KW - Persons KW - Assimilation (Sociology) KW - Discrimination KW - Ethnic relations KW - Majorities KW - Plebiscite KW - Race relations KW - Segregation KW - Emigration and immigration. KW - E-books KW - Noncitizen labor KW - Noncitizens KW - Social problems KW - Sociology of work KW - anno 2000-2009 KW - London KW - Foreign workers - Employment - England - London KW - Foreign workers - England - London - Social conditions KW - Minorities - Employment - England - London KW - England - Emigration and immigration KW - Emigration and immigration.. KW - Employment. KW - Minority employment KW - Affirmative action programs KW - Immigration KW - International migration KW - Migration, International KW - Population geography KW - Colonization UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5532628 AB - 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. ER -