Essential Work, Disposable Workers: Migration, Capitalism and Class Henaway Mostafa
Essential Work, Disposable Workers: Migration, Capitalism and Class Henaway Mostafa In recent years waves of migration from the Middle East, Latin America and Africa to Europe and North America have…
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Essential Work, Disposable Workers: Migration, Capitalism and Class Henaway Mostafa
In recent years waves of migration from the Middle East, Latin America and Africa to Europe and North America have been met with a corresponding rise in anti-immigrant, far-right populism in host countries, placing the question of migration at the forefront of politics and social movements. As globalization intensifies, workers everywhere are forced to compete for wages -- not through foreign investment and outsourcing, but through an increasingly mobile working class. In this sweeping account, Henaway seeks to understand these patterns through contextualizing global migration within a history of global capitalism, class formation and the financialization of migration.
Henaway rejects the dominant responses of restricting or "managing" migration through temporary worker programs, proposing that stopping a race to the bottom for all working people involves building solidarity with