Overview
- Links migration to hidden labour in 24/7 societies
- Discusses disposable migrants in post-industrial societies
- Revisits our understanding of essential workers
Part of the book series: IMISCOE Research Series (IMIS)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Transnational migration studies
- Nightwork in 24/7 London
- Transnational migrants working in 24/7 London
- 24/7 city a site for vulnerable labour
- The problems of nightwork in a day labour system
- Nightworkers experiencing lowest level of precarity
- Methodological challenges for nocturnal researchers
- Human bodies colonised by night
- Transition from circadian to 24/7 capitalism
- Routinised cooperation through physical labour
- Covid-19 and essential night work
- Night shift work in capitalism
- Nightshift Spitalfields
- Plea for nightwork research agenda
- A framework for assessing precarity among nightworkers
- Labour intensification alterations to time regimentation
- Night ethnographies of migrant nightworkers
- Manual migrant night workers at new Spitalfields market
- Habitus + six ‘S’ factors captured in nightworkers’ bodies
- Anthropology of migration
About this book
This book captures the hidden labour of migrant nightworkers in 24/7 London. It argues that late capitalism normalises nightwork, yet refuses to recognise the associated problems, from lack of decent working conditions to the seizure of the workers’ private time for self-development, family and social life. The book shows how the articulation of nightworkers’ subjectivities and socialities happens at the intersection between migration, precarity and nightwork, and traces how each of these dimensions magnifies the lived experience of the others. It further reveals that any possibilities for cooperation or solidarity in the workplace between migrant nightworkers become fragile and secondary to their survival of the nightshift. It also elucidates the mechanisms that hinder cohesion between vulnerable groups placed temporally and socially on a different par to the mainstream societies. As such, this book is an excellent resource for labour regulators, experts and student researchers in migration, work and gender.
The book offers a deeply empathic and engaging portrayal of the production of disciplined and exploitable manual labor in permanent nightshift cities. It cogently unpacks the experiences of embodied precarity through the largely unseen micro-practices of workplaces that entrap migrant laborers. The nightnographic component adds an original dimension to the inquiry.
Violetta Zentai, Central European University
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Julius-Cezar MacQuarie is a Marie-Sklodowska Curie Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Science in the 21st Century, University College Cork, Ireland where he conducts a project on Precarity in Women Migrant Nightworkers in Ireland. Over the years, he reached out to people inhabiting the night in various capacities: as a night ethnographer, migration scholar, outreach worker and collaborator with NGOs working with vulnerable groups. His Research interests include, night work in the nighttime economy, decent work agenda, international migration, and multi-modal nocturnal ethnography on migration and labour related dynamics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Invisible Migrant Nightworkers in 24/7 London
Authors: Julius-Cezar MacQuarie
Series Title: IMISCOE Research Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36186-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-36185-2Published: 31 August 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-36188-3Due: 02 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-36186-9Published: 30 August 2023
Series ISSN: 2364-4087
Series E-ISSN: 2364-4095
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 270
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Migration, Population Economics, Public Policy, Sociology of Work, Anthropology