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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.
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

Sujets

Social Science

Sociologie, société et politique

Sociology

Emigration

General officer

General

Labor

Migration

Immigration

Informations

Publié par	Pluto Press
Date de parution	31 décembre 2009
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781849644020
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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Global Cities at Work

Global Cities at Work New Migrant Divisions of Labour

JANE WILLS, KAVITA DATTA, YARA EVANS, JOANNA HERBERT, JON MAY and CATHY McILWAINE

First published 2010 by Pluto Press 345 Archway Road, London N6 5AA and 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010

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Distributed in the United States of America exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010

The right of Jane Wills, Kavita Datta, Yara Evans, Joanna Herbert, Jon May and Cathy McIlwaine to be identiﬁed as the authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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978 0 7453 2799 0 978 0 7453 2798 3

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CONTENTS

List of tablesList of guresList of photosList of abbreviations and acronymsAcknowledgements

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 among 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

AppendicesReferencesIndex

vi vii viii ix xi

28 59 94 121 138

163 188

197 204 227

LIST OF TABLES

1.1 The UK’s pointsbased immigration regime 2.1 The London–UK differential in wage rates for lowpaying jobs (1993 and 2001) 2.2 Changes in real hourly earnings in lowpaid occupations, 1993–2000, 2001–05, London and the UK 2.3 The distribution of migrants across higher and lowerpaid jobs in London, by time in the UK and by origin, 2005/06 2.4 Total employment and the proportion of foreignborn labour, by occupation, London, 1993/94, 1999/2000, 2001/02, 2004/05 2.5 Total employment and the proportion of foreignborn labour, by occupation, UK, 1993/94, 1999/2000, 2001/02, 2004/05 3.1 Regions and countries of origin 3.2 The wages of lowpaid migrants in London 3.3 Likes about the job 3.4 Dislikes about the job 3.5 Wages, conditions and the characteristics of labour supply in care, cleaning and hospitality 6.1 Highest level of education by nationality 7.1 Religious afﬁliation by place of birth 7.2 Estimates of the numbers covered and the wages gained in the London Living Wage campaign (February 2009)

43 61 77 78 78

80 157 175

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LIST OF FIGURES

1.1 Net migration to the UK, 1901–2006 1.2 The occupational distribution of migrant workers in the UK economy, 2006 1.3 Employment rates in London and the rest of the UK, 1992–2006 1.4 London’s real gain to work and hourly earnings relative to the rest of the UK, 2005 2.1 Change in employment in London, by sector, 1981–2004 2.2 Inequality in London, households by richest/poorest deciles, 1979/80, 1989–91 and 1999 2.3 Employment change by job quality, London and the UK, 1981–1991 2.4 Foreignborn London residents, by country of birth and geographic grouping, 2006 2.5 The proportion of employees who are foreignborn, by selected occupations, London, 1993/94 to 2004/05 3.1 The geographical origins of London’s lowpaid workers 3.2 The geography of employees earning less than £7.50 per hour, in London, by place of residence, 2008 3.3 The geography of foreignborn workers’ residence in London 4.1 The proportion of workers in London earning less than £7.50 an hour, by ethnicity, 2005–07 4.2 The proportion of the population on belowaverage income, by ethnicity, 1994/95–1996/97 and 2004/05–2006/07 4.3 The gender pay ratio in London and Great Britain, 1974–2003 (fulltime workers) 6.1 Remittance ﬂows from London to the rest of the world

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14 22

23 32

43 62

70 71

98 142

LIST OF PHOTOS

3.1 Migrant woman cleaning ofﬁces 4.1 Migrant man cleaning ofﬁces 5.1 Carila Latin American Welfare Group 30th anniversary meeting, London, July 2007 6.1 Advertisement for moneytransfer agency, London 7.1 London Citizens’ Living Wage campaign at the Department for Families, Children and Schools, October 2008 7.2 Colombian migrants calling for regularisation at May Day march, 2007 7.3 Mobilising through faith, Justice for Cleaners, Westminster’s Roman Catholic cathedral, 2007

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88 117

135 143

181

183

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LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS

APS – Annual Population Survey ASHE – Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings BUILD – Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development CANUK – Central Association of Nigerians in the United Kingdom CIS – Construction Industry Scheme COIC – Commission on Integration and Cohesion DCLG – Department of Communities and Local Government DFID – Department for International Development EPZ – Export Processing Zone EU – European Union FDI – Foreign Direct Investment FIRE – Finance, Insurance and Real Estate GLA – Greater London Authority IAF – Industrial Areas Foundation ILR – Indeﬁnite Leave to Remain IMF – International Monetary Fund IOM – International Organisation for Migration IPPR – Institute for Public Policy Research IWA – Indian Workers Association LFS – Labour Force Survey LLW – London Living Wage MDGs – Millennium Development Goals MOT – Ministry of Transport MTBs – MoneyTransfer Businesses NES – New Earnings Survey NHS – National Health Service NMW – National Minimum Wage NVQ – National Vocational Qualiﬁcation OC – Occupational Categories ODA – Overseas Development Assistance RPI – Retail Price Index SAP – Structural Adjustment Programme SOC – Standard Occupational Classiﬁcation TUPE – Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) regulations

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