Labor movement : how migration regulates labor markets / Harald Bauder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bauder, Harald, 1969-

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign workers.

Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

Labor market.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu & other prominent thinkers, this text presents case studies in Europe & North America. It unravels the web of regulatory labour market processes related to international migration & illustrates how social distinction, cultural judgement, & citizenship subordinate international & foreign workers.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; Part I-How Migration Regulates Labor Markets: A Framework; 1. International Segmentation of Labor; 2. Capital and Distinction; Part II-Immigrants in Vancouver; 3. Rules to Work By; 4. Cultural Judgments; 5. Institutionalized Labor Devaluation; Part III-Immigrants in Berlin; 6. Citizenship and Legal Classification; 7. Devalued Germans; 8. Between Support and Exclusion; Part IV-Offshore Labor in Ontario; 9. Discourse of Foreign Farmworkers; 10. Landscape and Scale; 11. Farmfare; Conclusion: Labor, Migration, and Action; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-258) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-756231-0

0-19-020835-X

1-280-53308-0

0-19-534622-X

1-4294-0346-2

OCLC:

476008433