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‘Flexible’ workers for ‘flexible’ jobs? The labour market function of A8 migrant labour in the UK

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Date
06/2015
Author
McCollum, David
Findlay, Allan MacKay
Keywords
A8 migration
Flexible labour markets
Labour migration
GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography
HD Industries. Land use. Labor
HB Economic Theory
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Abstract
There is considerable academic and policy interest in how immigrants fare in the labour markets of their host economy. This research is situated within these debates and explores the nexus between migrant labour and segmented labour markets. Specifically the analysis focuses on East-Central Europeans in Britain: a sizeable cohort of largely economic and recent migrants. A large quantity of interviews with low-wage employers and recruiters is used to examine the role served by East-Central European migrant labour in the UK labour market, question whether this function is distinct from conventional understandings of the function of migrant labour and explore how employer practices and other processes ‘produce’ these employment relations. Based on the findings from this approach, an argument is developed which contends that the ready availability of a well perceived cohort of migrant labour has sustained and extended flexible labour market structures towards the bottom end of the labour market.
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McCollum , D & Findlay , A M 2015 , ' ‘Flexible’ workers for ‘flexible’ jobs? The labour market function of A8 migrant labour in the UK ' , Work, Employment and Society , vol. 29 , no. 3 , pp. 427-443 . https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017014568137
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Work, Employment and Society
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017014568137
ISSN
0950-0170
Type
Journal article
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© 2015 the Authors. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0950017014568137
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/5850

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