The Precarious Migrant Worker
The Socialization of Precarity
$34.39
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
24 July 2025
Summary
Migrant workers in the West are at the frontline of the precarious condition that is coming to dominate social and economic life in neoliberal societies. Yet despite the highly insecure and exploitative working conditions they routinely face, labour mobilizations by precarious workers are rare.
In this immersive portrait of the daily realities of precarious migrant labour, Panos Theodoropoulos found work in Glasgow’s warehouses, factories and kitchens to uncover the ways that precarit…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781509564996 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1509564993 |
| Author: | Panos Theodoropoulos |
| Publisher: | Polity Press |
| Imprint: | Polity Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 24 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 363g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 152mm x 226mm |
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Critics Review
“This engaging ethnography of low-wage migrants highlights the contradiction between workers’ acute consciousness of exploitation and the conspicuous absence of unions or social movements in their communities. Against this bleak backdrop, Theodoropoulos dissects the logic of migrants’ reliance on individualistic survival strategies rather than collective mobilization.”
Ruth Milkman, City University of New York Graduate Center and former President of the American Sociological Association
“This is a Book of the Year for me […] Brilliantly researched and original.”
Hsiao-Hung Pai
“This text can be a difficult read at times, not due to any academic elitism, but to the contrary because it expresses so clearly the scars of capitalism on real people’s lives.”
IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) Book Recommendation
“a valuable contribution”
Labour Hub
“The Precarious Migrant Worker has many qualities that position it to become a classic of 21st century ethnography”
Work, Employment and Society
Panos Theodoropoulos
Panos Theodoropoulos is a sociologist affiliated with the University of Glasgow, and co-founder of the radical theory platform Interregnum.
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