Migrants and Low-Paid Employment in British Workplaces

Bryson, Alex; White, Michael

doi:10.1177/0950017019832509

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“…Both have been open to waves of skilled migrants, acknowledging their value for firms, regions and the nation. The proportion of highly educated immigrants is higher in the UK than in most other European countries (Bryson and White, 2019).…”

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confidence: 96%

Estimating the Wage Premium to Supervision for Middle Managers in Different Contexts: Evidence from Germany and the UK

Leonida

Marra

Scicchitano³

et al. 2020

Work, Employment and Society

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The analysis of wage distribution has attracted scholars from different disciplines seeking to develop theoretical arguments to explain the upward or downward trend. In particular, how the middle management wage premium changes in different contexts is a relatively neglected area of research. This study argues that wage distribution changes in different contexts, representing different forms of capitalism. To shed light on this, we considered the size and the shape of the wage premium to supervision paid to middle managers in Germany and the UK. We find evidence of two forms of context: middle managers are paid differently for the same task according to the economy where they work; of this amount, about half of the difference is related to the context. We frame the analysis within the literature on varieties of capitalism.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Estimating the Wage Premium to Supervision for Middle Managers in Different Contexts: Evidence from Germany and the UK

Leonida

Marra

Scicchitano³

et al. 2020

Work, Employment and Society

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“…As a group, ubiquitous yet invisible in what Hall (2018: 980) dubs the ‘migrant margins’ or ‘discriminatory borders’ of post-industrial cities, they are relatively hard to reach, hence more elusive, being hidden in plain sight. Faced with structurally limited options, they risk entrapment in temporary low-paid employment (Bryson and White, 2019) or in a range of precarious and demeaning jobs (Anderson, 2010).…”

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Relational interdependencies and the intra-EU mobility of African European Citizens

2023

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How can we better understand the puzzle of low-skilled migrants who have acquired citizenship in a European Union country, often with generous social security provision, choosing to relocate to the United Kingdom? Drawing on Elias’s figurational theory as a lens, we explore how relational interdependencies foster the mobility of low-skilled African European Citizens from European Union states to the United Kingdom. We found that African European Citizens rely on ‘piblings networks’, loose affiliations of putative relatives, to compensate for deficits in their situated social capital, facilitating relocation. The temporary stability afforded by impermanent bonds and transient associations, in constant flux in migrant communities, does not preclude integration but paradoxically promotes it by enabling an ease of connection and disconnection. Our study elucidates how these relational networks offer African European Citizens opportunities to achieve labour market integration, exercise self-efficacy, and realize desired futures; anchoring individuals in existing communities even when they are perpetually transforming.

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“…For migrants, these needs are considered negligible and/or the responsibility of individuals, not the state. Migrants are conceptualised as a strain on the UK economy, despite historical and continuing reliance on low-paid migrant workers for urban growth (Bryson and White, 2019). Indeed, whilst publicly advocating for anti-migrant policies like the Hostile Environment and Brexit, the state has been forced to consider temporary job mobility schemes to fill labour shortages in crucial logistical sectors (CBI, 2021).…”

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“…To do this, the paper departs from Artioli's observation that ‘platforms are an urban phenomenon’ (2018: 2) and outlines how the racial character of post-2008 urban sites where the on-demand platform economy is emerging provides crucial but understudied context for understanding platformisation. Indeed, both literatures are concerned with how capital re-organises urban labour-power in times of crisis; platforms absorb surplus populations unable to access formal, standard employment following the financial crisis (Croce, 2020; Rosenblat, 2018), while racial capitalism scholars situate racialisation as a process through which capital (re)draws boundaries around surplus populations via their coding as expendable and less-than-human, despite being essential to urban growth. The question therefore becomes: how do platformisation and racialisation processes constitute one another in organising post-2008 urban labour-power?…”

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Racial platform capitalism: Empire, migration and the making of Uber in London

Gebrial

2022

Environ Plan A

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The critical platform studies literature has built a compelling picture of how techniques like worker (mis)classification, algorithmic management and workforce atomisation lie at the heart of how ‘work on-demand via apps’ actively restructure labour. Much of this emerging scholarship identifies that platform workforces are predominantly comprised of migrant and racially minoritised workers. However, few studies theorise migration and race as structuring logics of the platform model and the precarity it engenders. This paper addresses this gap by exploring how the platform economy – specifically work on-demand via apps – both shapes and is shaped by historically contingent contexts of racialisation, and their constitutive processes such as embodiment and immigration policy/rhetoric. Beyond identifying the over-representation of racial minorities in the platform economy, it argues that processes of racialisation have been crucial at every stage of the platform economy's rise to dominance, and therefore constitutes a key organising principle of platform capitalism – hence the term ‘racial platform capitalism’. In doing so, this paper draws on the racial capitalism literature, to situate key platform techniques such as worker (mis)classification and algorithmic management as forms of racial practice, deployed to (re-)organise surplus urban labour-power following the 2008 financial crisis. This framework will be explored through an ethnographic study of Uber's rise in London. Through this, the paper demonstrates a co-constitutive relationship, where the conditions of minoritised workers in a global city like London post-2008, and the political economy of platform companies can be said to have co-produced one another.

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Migrants and Low-Paid Employment in British Workplaces

Cited by 10 publications

References 32 publications

Estimating the Wage Premium to Supervision for Middle Managers in Different Contexts: Evidence from Germany and the UK

Estimating the Wage Premium to Supervision for Middle Managers in Different Contexts: Evidence from Germany and the UK

Relational interdependencies and the intra-EU mobility of African European Citizens

Racial platform capitalism: Empire, migration and the making of Uber in London

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