"Find a pool of cheap, pliable workers and give them jobs - and soon they cease to be as cheap or as pliable. What is an employer to do then? Why, find another poor community desperate for work. This route - one taken time and again by major American manufacturers - is vividly c…
"Find a pool of cheap, pliable workers and give them jobs - and soon they cease to be as cheap or as pliable. What is an employer to do then? Why, find another poor community desperate for work. This route - one taken time and again by major American manufacturers - is vividly c…
Migrants, mobility and citizenship in India
Migrants, mobility and citizenship in India
Global, Soviet cities -- Friendship, freedom, mobility and the elder brother -- Making a place in the two capitals -- Race and racism -- Becoming "svoi" : belonging in the two capitals -- Life on the margins -- Perestroika "This book focuses on those peoples of the Caucasus and…
"This book focuses on those peoples of the Caucasus and Central Asia, who were making the streets of the Soviet Union's "two capitals" their own. Hundreds of thousands of Uzbeks, Tajiks, Georgians, Azerbaijanis and others arrived in the last Soviet era, seeking opportunity at th…
This edited volume adds to the literature on Myanmar and its borders by drawing attention to the significance of geography, history, politics and society in the construction of the border regions and the country. First, it alerts us to the fact that the border regions are situat…
