Just Work?: Migrant Workers' Struggles Today

"Offers a wide range of new grassroots perspectives on global migrant labour organising today. From diverse workers' organisations in South Africa to migrant worker resistance in the Gulf, from forest workers in the Czech Republic to domestic workers' unions in Hong Kong, this book brings together a wealth of lived experiences and hidden struggles for the first time. Just Work? proves that migrant workers are finding innovative ways of resisting exploitation and challenging neoliberal immigration measures, both within traditional labour orgnaisations and beyond."

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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1. Just Work? Migrant Workers, Capitalist Globalisation and Resistance -- Aziz Choudry and Mondli Hlatshwayo; Part I: Africa and the Middle East; 2. Xenophobia, Resilience, and Resistance in Immigrant Workers in South Africa: Collective and Individual Responses -- Mondli Hlatshwayo; 3. States of Exclusion: Migrant Work in the Gulf Arab States -- Adam Hanieh; 4. Undocumented Migrant Workers in Nigeria: Labouring in the Shadows of Regional Integration -- Baba Ayelabola; Part II: Europe.

5. Migrant Rights Activism and the Tree Workers Case in the Czech Republic -- Marek Čaněk6. Towards a History of the Latin American Workers Association 2002-12 -- Jake Lagnado; 7. Lessons from Migrant Workers' Organisations and Mobilisation in Switzerland -- Vasco Pedrina; Part III: Asia and the Pacific; 8. Migrant Unionism in Hong Kong: A Case Study of Experiences of Foreign Domestic Workers in Union Organising -- Asia Pacific Mission for Migrants.

9. The Possibilities and Limitations of Organising Immigrant Workers in Japan: The Case of the Local Union of the All-Japan Metal and INformation Machinery Workers' Union -- Hiroshi Ueki10. Disas…