From Coping Strategies to Tactics: London's Low-Pay Economy and Migrant Labour
This article examines the means by which low-paid migrant workers survive in a rapidly changing and increasingly unequal labour market. In a departure from the coping strategies literature, it is argued that the difficulties migrant workers face in the London labour market reduces their ability to 'strategize'. Instead, workers adopt a range of 'tactics' that enable them to 'get by', if only just, on a day-to-day basis. The article explores these tactics with reference to the connections between different workers' experiences of the workplace, home and community, and demonstrates the role of national, ethnic and gender relations in shaping migrant workers' experiences of the London labour market and of the city more widely. Copyright Blackwell Publishing Ltd/London School of Economics 2007.
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2007
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Authors: | Datta, Kavita ; McIlwaine, Cathy ; Evans, Yara ; Herbert, Joanna ; May, Jon ; Wills, Jane |
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British Journal of Industrial Relations. - London School of Economics (LSE). - Vol. 45.2007, 2, p. 404-432
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London School of Economics (LSE) |
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