Invisible Migrant Nightworkers in 24/7 London - Julius-Cezar MacQuarie

Invisible Migrant Nightworkers in 24/7 London

Buch | Softcover
XXI, 270 Seiten
2024 | 2023
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-36188-3 (ISBN)
128,39 inkl. MwSt

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

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.

Chapter 1. Introduction: Invisible Migrants.- Chapter 2. Nightnography: We Are Not Night Creatures.- Chapter 3. Half-rejected, Half-permitted Migrant Workers.- Chapter 4. Intersecting Hierarchies of Nightwork.- Chapter 5. The Normalisation of Nightwork.- Chapter 6. Habitus of Nightwork.- Chapter 7. Embodied Precariousness.- Chapter 8. Fragmented Cooperation.- Chapter 9. Conclusion: The Significance of Nightwork.- Chapter 10. Coda-Essential Yet Invisible, Pandemic or Not.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie IMISCOE Research Series
Zusatzinfo XXI, 270 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort Cham
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 452 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeine Soziologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Empirische Sozialforschung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte 24/7 city a site for vulnerable labour • A framework for assessing precarity among nightworkers • Anthropology of Migration • Covid-19 and essential night work • Habitus + six 'S' factors captured in nightworkers' bodies • Habitus + six ‘S’ factors captured in nightworkers’ bodies • Human bodies colonised by night • Labour intensification alterations to time regimentation • Manual migrant night workers at new Spitalfields market • Methodological challenges for nocturnal researchers • Night ethnographies of migrant nightworkers • Nightshift Spitalfields • Night shift work in capitalism • Nightworkers experiencing lowest level of precarity • Nightwork in 24/7 London • Plea for nightwork research agenda • Routinised cooperation through physical labour • The problems of nightwork in a day labour system • Transition from circadian to 24/7 capitalism • Transnational migrants working in 24/7 London • Transnational migration studies
ISBN-10 3-031-36188-1 / 3031361881
ISBN-13 978-3-031-36188-3 / 9783031361883
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