From Factory Fodder to Multicultural Mediators: A new typology of immigrant work experiences in Australia - Softcover

Bertone, Santina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3639028775 ISBN 13: 9783639028775

Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008

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Australia has the highest proportion of overseasborn immigrants of any Western country, with over200 language backgrounds. This bookexamines how the working patterns of immigrantworkers have changed through the 1980s to the 21stcentury in response to globalisation, economicrestructuring, industrial relations changes andincreasing emphasis on skilled migration. Based onsurvey data and interviews with immigrants acrossthe occupational spectrum, the book presents atypology for understanding the genesis and nature ofmodern work patterns from unskilled (factory fodder)through semi skilled (upskilled manual workers)to highly skilled (including multiculturalmediators). The book finds that the workingpatterns and concerns of immigrants continue todiffer from those of the native workforce. Issuesof exploitation and work intensification, through tomore subtle concerns about under-employment andblocked career paths continue tocharacterise the working lives of Australianimmigrant workers. Overall, however, immigrants'occupational status is improving within thisrapidly changing economic and structural context.

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Bertone Santina

Santina Bertone is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Business and Law Victoria University Melbourne Australia She has researched in the area of immigration and work since the 1990s Santina has long been active in policy circles within ethnic community affairs and government committees She was a national union official in the 1980s

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• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 3639028775
• ISBN 13: 9783639028775
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 316
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