Just Work?: Migrant Workers’ Struggle Today by Aziz Choudry, Mondli Hlatshwayo

By Aziz Choudry, Mondli Hlatshwayo

 As the fight opposed to neoliberalism turns into ever extra worldwide, Just Work would be the definitive ebook at the starting to be social and political energy of 1 its significant forces: migrant hard work. From exchange unions in South Africa to resistance in oppressive Gulf states, migrating woodland employees within the Czech Republic, and unlawful staff’ companies in Hong Kong, Just Work brings jointly a wealth of lived studies and frontline struggles for the 1st time. Highlighting advancements within the wake of austerity and assaults on conventional kinds of hard work organizing, the members express how employees are discovering new and cutting edge methods of resisting. the result's either a wealthy research of the place the stream stands this day and a reminder of the possibly explosive strength of migrant staff within the years to come.

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By Aziz Choudry, Mondli Hlatshwayo

 As the fight opposed to neoliberalism turns into ever extra worldwide, Just Work would be the definitive ebook at the starting to be social and political energy of 1 its significant forces: migrant hard work. From exchange unions in South Africa to resistance in oppressive Gulf states, migrating woodland employees within the Czech Republic, and unlawful staff’ companies in Hong Kong, Just Work brings jointly a wealth of lived studies and frontline struggles for the 1st time. Highlighting advancements within the wake of austerity and assaults on conventional kinds of hard work organizing, the members express how employees are discovering new and cutting edge methods of resisting. the result's either a wealthy research of the place the stream stands this day and a reminder of the possibly explosive strength of migrant staff within the years to come.

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With the discovery of oil in the Gulf in the early twentieth century – followed by the beginnings of commercial exploitation in the post-Second World War period – these migration patterns were to shift decisively. The region as a whole was transformed from a relatively underdeveloped area largely based on pearling and entrepôt trade into a central node of an emerging oil-based global capitalism (Hanieh, 2011). There were three clear phases to this transformation as it related to migration. During the first phase (1950–73), increasing numbers of migrant workers found employment in the oil and public sector workforces; citizen labour, however, continued to constitute a majority of the overall labour force.

The situation is worse for women immigrants. According to Musetha, ‘Three out of 10 Zimbabwean women are gang-raped while trying to illegally cross the border into South Africa through undesignated entry points along the Limpopo River’ (2012: 1). Pamela Khumalo, a woman migrant worker working in South Africa’s early childhood development sector said, ‘We have to persevere. Resilience keeps us going. We have to survive against all odds and that has to do with the fact that there are no job and economic opportunities in Zimbabwe.

The logic behind this shift was not entirely without precedent; in the late 1970s, for example, South Korean conglomerates had marketed themselves to the Saudi and Bahraini governments as providers of a ‘semimilitarized labor force’ of former soldiers who would be housed in labour camps away from other workers or citizens, and supposedly immune to any political or labour protest (Disney, 1977: 24). The 1980s and 1990s, however, were to mark a decisive generalisation of this policy of ‘containerisation of labour’ across the wider Gulf.

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