Vulnerability, Exploitation and Migrants : Insecure Work in a Globalised Economy.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Vulnerability and exploitation at work: Precarious migrant lives -- The globalisation of vulnerability -- Migrant workers, unfreedom and forced labour -- The vulnerability of asylum seekers -- Hidden from view: The most exploited workers -- Interventions: Tackling labour exploitation -- Part I: The Globalisation of Vulnerability -- 1 Private Governance and the Problem of Trafficking and Slavery in Global Supply Chains -- The limits of corporate self-regulation -- The limits of consumer-driven change -- The limited reach of public regulation -- 2 The Political Economy of Outsourcing -- Introduction -- The globalisation of production . . . and of the producers -- Export-oriented industrialisation: Widely spread or narrowly concentrated? -- The southwards shift of the industrial working class -- 'Global labour arbitrage': Key driver of the globalisation of production -- The GDP illusion -- Growing wage inequality -- Falling labour share of national income -- Global wage differentials -- Conclusion -- 3 Labour, Exploitation and Migration in Western Europe: An International Political Economy Perspective -- Introduction -- IWP research, migration and migrant workers -- Neoliberal globalisation, migration and impoverishment -- Labour market effects of the economic crisis -- Trade union responses -- Conclusion -- Part II: Migrant Workers, Unfreedom and Forced Labour -- 4 Social Reproduction and Migrant Domestic Labour in Canada and the UK: Towards a Multi-Dimensional Concept of Subordination -- Introduction -- The political economy of migrant domestic labour -- (Re)producing precarity: The state, migration and regimes of social reproduction -- Conclusion: The subordination of the social.

5 Labour Exploitation of Non-EU Migrants in Slovakia: Patterns, Implications and Structural Violence -- Introduction -- Migration in Slovakia: Migrant workers, migration policy and politics -- Migrants in Slovakia and labour exploitation -- Intersections of violence, abuse and exploitation: Migrants and structural violence -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- 6 Understanding and Evaluating UK Efforts to Tackle Forced Labour -- Introduction -- Forced labour in the UK: What we know -- UK policy and practice to tackle forced labour -- The Modern Slavery Bill: Leading 'the global fight'? -- Conclusions: Addicted to cheap labour? -- Part III: The Vulnerability of Asylum Seekers -- 7 The Contribution of UK Asylum Policy 1999-2010 to Conditions for the Exploitation of Migrant Labour -- Introduction -- British capitalism and the international reserve army of labour -- Refugees in Britain and the management of migration -- Conclusions -- 8 Precarity at Work: Asylum Rights and Paradoxes of Labour in Sweden -- Introduction -- Asylum rights and paradoxes of labour: Mira's story -- Precarity at work -- Work as a strategy against precarity -- Institutionalised precarity -- Precarity between neoliberalism and protectionism -- Conclusion -- 9 Bangladeshi Fruit Vendors in the Streets of Paris: Vulnerable Asylum Seekers or Self-Imposed Victims of Exploitation? -- Introduction -- Being an asylum seeker in France: Constrained access to legal rights to work -- The methodology of the research -- Bangladeshi in France: Increasing asylum migration -- Street fruit vending as constrained livelihood strategies -- Fruit vending work and organisation -- Contested presence of fruit vendors in public space -- Conclusion -- 10 Refused Asylum Seekers as the Hyper-Exploited -- Introduction -- Destitution and survival -- Pushed into the labour market.

The interaction between risk of destitution, 'illegality' and labour market position -- Contesting exploitation -- Conclusions -- Part IV: Hidden from View: The Most Exploited Workers -- 11 Sweatshop Workers in Buenos Aires: The Political Economy of Human Trafficking in a Peripheral Country -- Introduction -- Local sweatshops in Buenos Aires -- From Fordism to neoliberalism in garment manufacturing -- Widespread precarity as the prelude to forced labour -- Progress and retreat: The anti-trafficking struggle and the State -- Open borders, isolated workers: The atypical case of Argentina's progressive immigration legislation -- Conclusions -- 12 Experiences of Forced Labour among UK-Based Chinese Migrant Workers: Exploring Vulnerability and Protection in Times of Empire -- Introduction -- The research -- Empire, Multitude and Commonwealth -- Family networks -- Travel networks -- Work networks -- Conclusion -- 13 The Working Lives of Undocumented Migrants: Social Capital, Individual Agency and Mobility -- Sectors of work and terms and conditions -- Job search within the context of being an undocumented migrant -- A case study: The working life of an undocumented migrant in Britain -- Conclusion -- 14 Slavery in the Twenty-First Century: A Review of Domestic Work in the UK -- Introduction -- Context -- Employee/employer relationship -- The invisibility of domestic workers -- Conclusion -- Part V: Interventions: Tackling Labour Exploitation -- 15 Global Citizenship: The Need for Dignity and Respect for Migrants -- Introduction -- Dignity in the workplace -- Methodology -- The stratification of farm workers -- Romanian workers -- Regular Tunisian migrants -- Refugee workers -- Irregular migrants -- Conclusion -- 16 Winning a Living Wage: The Legacy of Living Wage Campaigns -- Introduction -- The living wage campaign at the UEL.

The living wage: Impact and problems -- Methods -- Data analysis and findings -- Benefits from the introduction of the living wage -- 'Evening things out': Negative consequences of living wage introduction -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- 17 Forced Labour and Ethical Trade in the Indian Garment Industry -- Forced labour and labour exploitation -- The textile and garment sector in Tamil Nadu, India -- Interventions on forced labour -- International campaigns -- Ethical Trading Initiative -- Using the exploitation continuum to inform policy, ethical trade and campaign responses -- 18 The Staff Wanted Initiative: Preventing Exploitation, Forced Labour and Trafficking in the UK Hospitality Industry -- Introduction -- Nature of the hotel industry -- The London 2012 Olympic Games and Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games -- Staff Wanted Initiative at the government level -- Staff Wanted Initiative's work on business responsibility to respect human rights -- Conclusions -- Index.

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