Just Work: Migrant Workers' Struggles Today

Just Work? offers a vast range of original, grass-roots perspectives on global migrant labour organising in the twenty-first century. From diverse workers' organisations in South Africa to migrant worker resistance in the Gulf, from forestworkers in the Czech Republic to domestic workers' structures in Hong Kong, this volume will bring together a wealth of lived experiences and hidden struggles for the first time. Highlighting the changing nature of frontline struggles againstexploitation, Just Work? proves that migrant workers are finding new and innovative ways of resisting neoliberal immigration measures. They are forced to fight against the precarious nature of jobs from both within and outside of traditional forms oflabour organisations. With contributions from scholars and activists from around the world engaged in this resistance, this will be an accessible collection based on grass-roots experiences, placed in a political economy framework. The full list ofregions explored are: South Africa, Philippines, Gulf Arab States, Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Japan, London, Nigeria, New Zealand, Canada and Switzerland.

Just work? Migrant workers, capitalist globalisation and resistance / Aziz Choudry and Mondli Hlatshwayo. Africa and the Middle East. Xenophobia, Resilience, and Resistance of Immigrant Workers in South Africa: Collective and Individual Responses / Mondli Hlatshwayo -- States of Exclusion: Migrant Work in the Gulf Arab States / Adam Hanieh -- Undocumented Migrant Workers in Nigeria: Labouring in the Shadows of Regional Integration / Baba Ayelabola -- Europe. Migrant Rights: Activism and the Tree Workers Case in the Czech Republic / Marek Canek -- Towards a History of the Latin American Workers Association 2002-12 / Jake Lagnado -- Lessons from Migrant Workers' Organisation and Mobilisation in Switzerland / Vasco Pedrina -- Asia and the Pacific. Migrant Unionism in Hong Kong: A Case Study of Experiences of Foreign Domestic Workers in Union Organising / Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants -- The Possibilities and Limitations of Organishing Immigrant Workers in Japan: The Case of the Local Union of the All-Japan Metal and Information Machinery Workers' Union / Hiroshi Ueki -- Disaster Capitalism and Migrant Worker Organising in Aotearoa/New Zeland / Edward Miller and Dennis Maga -- Nor…