{"product_id":"unfree-labour-struggles-of-migrant-and-immigrant-workers-in-canada-paperback","title":"Unfree Labour?: Struggles of Migrant and Immigrant Workers in Canada - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAziz Choudry\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAdrian A. Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis 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\"--the ongoing racialization of economic inequality for many workers of colour. The collection also examines how migrant and immigrant workers have organized for justice and dignity in Canada. As opposed to a good deal of current writing that often ignores the working conditions and struggles of racialized migrant and immigrant workers, the authors contend that migrant workers, labour organizations, and migrant worker allies have engaged in a wide range of organizing initiatives with significant political and economic impacts. These have included both court challenges to secure legal rights to unionization and grassroots alternatives to traditional forms of unionization through workers' centres.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors include Aziz Choudry, Adrian A. Smith, Sedef Arat-Koç, Abigail B. Bakan, Joey Calugay, Jennifer Jihye Chun, Jill Hanley, Jah-Hon Koo, Mostafa Henaway, Deena Ladd, Marco Luciano, Loïc Malhaire, Adriana Paz Ramirez, Geraldina Polanco, Chris Ramsaroop, Eric Shragge, Sonia Singh, Christopher C. Sorio, and Mark Thomas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAziz Choudry\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University and visiting professor at the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation, Faculty of Education, University of Johannesburg. He is author of \u003ci\u003eLearning Activism: The Intellectual Life of Contemporary Social Movements. \u003c\/i\u003eHe serves on the board of the Immigrant Workers Centre, Montreal. \u003cb\u003eAdrian A. Smith\u003c\/b\u003e is an activist-scholar with interests in the legal regulation of labour migration in historical and contemporary forms. He has published in the \u003ci\u003eCanadian Journal of Law\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eand Society \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSocialist Studies\u003c\/i\u003e and is currently completing a manuscript tentatively entitled \u003ci\u003eMigration, Law and Development. \u003c\/i\u003eHe is a member of Justicia For Migrant Workers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 15, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47355503509753,"sku":"9781629631493","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/uZVYdvoHvn9781629631493.webp?v=1769854105","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/unfree-labour-struggles-of-migrant-and-immigrant-workers-in-canada-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}