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Scott, Sam 
ORCID: 0000-0002-5951-4749 and Rye, Johan Fredrik ORCID: 0000-0001-5252-359X
(2024)
The Alienation-Insulation Dynamic and the Low-Wage Migrant Work Ethic.
Critical Sociology.
doi:10.1177/08969205241276864
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Abstract
Low-wage labour migrants moving from lower-income to higher-income countries have been celebrated for their strong work ethic over recent decades. The paper draws on qualitative insights from European horticulture to explore why low-wage migrants work as hard as they do. We centre our analysis on an ‘alienation-insulation’ dynamic. Specifically, we show how migrants are particularly alienated in ways that are different to that of the immobile working-class. However, we also argue that migrants’ spatial (their dual frame of reference) and temporal (their liminal) agency insulates them from this alienation to some degree. It is important, in this respect, to differentiate between alienation as ostensibly encountered (an objective phenomenon) and the actual felt experiences of alienation (as a subjective phenomenon). We conclude that the alienation-insulation dynamic is a key, but underexplored, element in understanding the complex relationship between labour mobility and labour power.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Article Type: | Article |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Alienation; Geography; Insulation; Labour; Low-Wage; Migration; Sociology; Work |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human geography. Human ecology. Anthropogeography H Social Sciences > HM Sociology |
| Divisions: | Schools and Research Institutes > School of Education and Science |
| Depositing User: | Sam Scott |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Aug 2024 14:46 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Sep 2024 14:19 |
| URI: | https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/14269 |
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