The Precarious Migrant Worker

“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

Panos Theodoropoulos is a sociologist affiliated with the University of Glasgow, and co-founder of the radical theory platform Interregnum.