Unfree Labour? : Struggles of Migrant and Immigrant Workers in Canada by Choudry, Aziz, Smith, Adrian instant download

Unfree Labour? : Struggles of Migrant and Immigrant Workers in Canada by Choudry, Aziz, Smith, Adrian instant download

1 online resource (225 pages), Over the past decade, Canada has experienced considerable growth in labour migration. Moreover, temporary labour migration has replaced permanent immigration as the primary means by which people enter Canada. Utilizing the rhetoric of maintaining competitiveness, Canadian employers and the state have ushered in an era of neoliberal migration alongside an agenda of austerity flowing from capitalist crisis. Labour markets have been restructured to render labour more flexible and precarious, and in Canada as in other high-income capitalist labour markets, employers are relying on migrant and immigrant workers as \"unfree labour.\" This book explores labour migration to Canada and how public policies of temporary and guest worker programs function in the global context of work and capitalist restructuring. Contributors are directly engaged with the issues emerging from the influx of temporary foreign workers and Canada's \"creeping economic apartheid.\", Print version record, Front Cover; Praise for Unfree Labour?; Title Page; Half Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Struggling against Unfree Labour -- Aziz Choudry and Adrian A. Smith; Producing and Contesting \"Unfree Labour\" through the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program -- Mark Thomas; Migrant Live-In Caregivers: Control, Consensus, and Resistance in the Workplace and the Community -- Jah-Hon Koo and Jill Hanley, \"Systemic Discrimination\" in the Canadian Context: Live-in Domestic Care, Employment Equity, and the Challenge of Unfree Labour Markets -- Abigail B. BakanGlobalizing \"Immobile\" Worksites: Fast Food under Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program -- Geraldina Polanco; Struggling against History: Migrant Farmworker Organizing in British Columbia -- Adriana Paz Ramirez and Jennifer Jihye Chun; The Case for Unemployment Insurance Benefits for Migrant Agricultural Workers in Canada -- Chris Ramsaroop, Critical Questions:…