Migrant Actors Worldwide: Capitalist Interests, State Regulations, and Left-wing Strategies (Studies in Global Social History - Studies in Global Migration History, 53)

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Contents
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Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1 Introduction: Migrant Actors Worldwide: Capitalist Interests, State Regulations, and Left- Wing Strategies
	1 Research Approaches to Labour Migration and Capital Investment Strategies
	2 Labour Demand and Migration in the Present
	3 The Role of States in Historical Perspective: Empires, Multi- Ethnic Conglomerates, Self- Declared Nations
	4 Portable Working Populations in Historical Perspective
	5 Capitalist Investment Strategies, Mass Migrations, and Segmented Labour Markets since the Nineteenth Century
	6 Class and Organization: How Do Left Unions and Parties React to Labour Migration?
	7 Workingmen’s and - women’s Struggles “from the Bottom Up” – but Why Are They at the Bottom?
Part 1 Perspectives, Approaches, Frames
	Chapter 2 Pluralist States, Multiple Migrations, International Approaches
		1 The Poverty of Political Theory – of European Origin
		2 Universal Human Rights – Including Migration
		3 States and Migration
		4 Colonizing States, Capital Accumulation and Mobility, Colonized Working Populations
		5 Jobs in Platform Economies and Forbes’ List of “The Richest People in the World”
		6 State-Side Legal Frames, Facilitating Factors, Migrant Agency
	Chapter 3 World-Systems, Uneven Development, and Migration
		1 World-Systems Approaches
		2 Racism
		3 Migration in a Racialized World
		4 Global Inequalities: Examples
Part 2 Class/Classes:
	Chapter 4 Introduction
	Chapter 5 Outsourcing the Working Class: Guestwork in Turbulent Times
		1 What Is Guestwork?
		2 COVID-19 and Guestworkers: Vulnerabilities
			2.1 UK and US
			2.2 The Gulf
			2.3 Southeast Asia
		3 What Do We Learn about Guestwork from the COVID-19 Crisis?
		4 Essential Workers, Dependent Economies
		5 Conclusion: Lessons for an Uncertain Future
	Chapter 6 Is There Informal Labour?: The Concept, the ilo’s Ideology, and Greece as an Example
		1 Introduction: Irregular Migration and “Informal” Labour
		2 Migration in Greece: Facts and Stereotypes
		3 Informal Economy: A Brief History of a Notion
			3.1 The Diffusion and Institutionalization of the Term
			3.2 The “Informal” Economy and Its Specific Structure
			3.3 Evolution
		4 Economic Policy versus Political Economy
			4.1 The European Institutionalization of the “Informal”
			4.2 The Concept of “Informal” Labour and Greece
			4.3 Current Undocumented Migrants and “Informal” Labour
		5 Conclusion
	Chapter 7 Utilizing Population Movements: How States Use Emigration to Regulate National Economies
		1 Introduction
		2 Controlling Human Mobility to Enable and Condition Markets
		3 Regulating Citizens’ Emigration to Achieve Socio-Economic Ends
		4 Italy
		5 Poland
		6 A Comparative Perspective: Emigration to What Ends?
		7 Making Sense of Emigration Policy
		8 Conclusion
	Chapter 8 The Quest for Chinese Labour: Colonial Competition for Coolies and the Emergence of the Modern Chinese Worker
		1 Introduction
		2 The Coolie Trade: Expanding and “Liberalizing” the Labour Market
		3 The French Empire’s Involvement in Coolie Recruitment and Trade
		4 The Qing Government’s Attempts to Negotiate Terms of Recruitment and Work
		5 Qing Officials React to Workers’ Mistreatment and Labour Resistance
		6 The Coolie Experience and the Making of the Modern Chinese Worker
		7 Conclusion
	Chapter 9 African Agency versus State and Capital Control: Migration to the British Northern Rhodesian Copperbelt in Comparative Perspective, 1920s to 1960s
		1 Introduction
		2 Mining Labour Systems in Comparative Perspective until the 1940s
			2.1 Labour Recruitment and Coercion in Southern and Central Africa
			2.2 The Circular Migrant Labour System
			2.3 Communication between Africans and Capital: Towards Trade Unionism
		3 Stabilization, Women, and Trade Union Struggles in Northern Rhodesia
			3.1 Stabilization in Northern Rhodesia
			3.2 The Role of Women in Northern Rhodesian Mining Towns
			3.3 African Trade Union Struggles in Northern Rhodesia: Wage Increases, Colour Bar, and African Advancement
		4 Conclusion
Part 3 Empires and Labour Regimes – and “the Left”
	Chapter 10 Introduction
	Chapter 11 Organizable and Unorganizable Migrants: Racism and Internationalism in Early-Twentieth-Century Social Democracy
		1 Socialists and Immigration in Non-European Regions: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
		2 The Response from Central and Eastern European Socialists
		3 Showdown at the Stuttgart Congress 1907
		4 Conclusion
	Chapter 12 Labour Migration Regimes in Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and the Russian Federation
		1 Imperial Russia
		2 The Soviet Union
		3 The Russian Federation
		4 Conclusion
	Chapter 13 Producing (Im-)mobile Capital and Labour in the Arab-Gulf Region: From the British Empire to Independent States
		1 Which Factors Influence Current Policies? The Exceptionalism Explanation
		2 Explanations beyond the “Local” Factors: The British Empire and Its Policy in the Colonial Period
		3 Policies in the Neighbouring Regions
		4 Conclusion
	Chapter 14 The Making of a Neoliberal Labour Regime in California: Immigration, American Empire, and Union Organizing in the 1980s and 1990s
		1 Introduction
		2 The Neoliberal Transition in California
		3 The Restructuring of California’s Economic Sectors and Labour Markets
		4 California and Transnational Migration
		5 Connections: US Imperialism in Latin America
		6 Labour Organizing in California: Social Movement Unionism
		7 Conclusion
Part 4 Regional Migration Patterns, Work Regimes, and Workers’ Agency
	Chapter 15 Introduction
	Chapter 16 Foreign Polish Labour Migrants in the German Empire: A Reassessment
		1 Introduction
		2 The Prussian Regulations: A Brief Overview
		3 Historiographic Interpretations
		4 Implementing the Regulations in the West
		5 How to Challenge Expulsion
			5.1 Arriving Early
			5.2 Switching Occupations
			5.3 Denying Polishness
			5.4 Marrying a German
			5.5 Pleading Hardship
		6 Conclusion
	Chapter 17 Colonial Boom Towns: Migration and Insecure Urban Tenure in Industrializing Southern Rhodesia
		1 Introduction
			1.1 Temporary Tenure in Colonial Boom Towns
			1.2 Theories on Limited Labour “Stabilization”
			1.3 Migration Systems: Beyond “Push” and “Pull”
		2 Political Economics in a Settler Colony
			2.1 Institutionalizing Inequality
			2.2 Industrialization and Early Urbanization
		3 Barriers to Urban Permanence in Industrial Towns
			3.1 Rural and Urban Opportunity Constraints
			3.2 Labour Stabilization: Policy versus Practice
			3.3 Racial Wage Disparities
		4 Conclusion
	Chapter 18 “Ceylon for Sinhalese!”: “Depression Politics” and Indian Migrants in Ceylon
		1 Background
		2 The Context: Migrant Labour after the Abolition of the British Regime of Indenture
		3 Economic Depression and Its Repercussions on Wages and Mobility
		4 “Depression Politics”: Rising Anti-Indian Immigration Sentiments and Negotiations
		5 The Ceylonese Response to Estate Labour Shortages
		6 The Indian Position on the Kangany System and the Labour Demands in Ceylon
		7 New Restrictions and Newer Forms of Malpractices
		8 Towards Closure of Recruitment: Reasons, Pretences, and Debates
		9 Conclusion
Part 5 Workingmen’s and -women’s Agency in Globally Interconnected Spaces
	Chapter 19 Introduction
	Chapter 20 Between Migrants and States: Japanese Entrepreneurs and Professionals in Two Port Cities in the Pacific World, 1880s to 1920s
		1 Brokerage at the Front Line: Japanese Hotel and Boardinghouse Keepers
		2 Agents of Mobility
		3 Brokering Knowledge: Japanese Interpreters and American Attorneys
		4 Conclusion
	Chapter 21 Deterring Free and Deploying Interned Migrant Ukrainian Workers: The Catholic Church, the Canadian State, and the Quebec Asbestos Strikes of 1915 and 1916
		1 The Role of Ukrainians in the Asbestos Mines
		2 Enter the Quebec Catholic Church
		3 Enter the State in the Form of the Secular Federal Government
		4 Conclusion
	Chapter 22 A “Special Category of Women” in Austria and Internationally: Migrant Women Workers, Trade Union Activists, and the Textile Industry, 1960s to 1980s
		1 Labour Migration, Deindustrialization and Rationalization in the Textile Industry
		2 The Austrian Labour Migration Regime in a European Context
		3 The Misconstruction of Labour Migration as a Male Phenomenon
		4 The Double Marginalization of Migrant Women Workers in Trade Unionism
		5 Precarious Spaces of Activism
		6 A “Special Category of Women”: Conclusion
	Chapter 23 Filipina Chambermaids in Denmark: Organizing Within and Outside the Copenhagen Hotel and Restaurant Workers’ Union, 1960s to 1990s
		1 Introduction
		2 The Filipino Pioneers in Denmark – in Global Perspective
		3 Institutionalizing Labour Export
		4 Migrants Marginalized in the Danish Trade Union Movement
		5 The HRF Transforms Through Filipina Organizing
		6 Pirate Companies and Chambermaids
		7 “Filipinas Have Always Been the Easiest to Organize”
		8 Conclusion
Selective Bibliography
Index of Human Geography
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