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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458412703321

Autore

Bauder Harald <1969->

Titolo

Labor movement [[electronic resource] ] : how migration regulates labor markets / / Harald Bauder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2005

ISBN

0-19-756231-0

0-19-020835-X

1-280-53308-0

0-19-534622-X

1-4294-0346-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (282 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

331.6/2

Soggetti

Foreign workers

Emigration and immigration - Economic aspects

Labor market

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2005.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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;

Sommario/riassunto

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.