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From Textile Mills to Taxi Ranks: Experiences of Migration, Labour and Social Change Experiences of Migration, Labour and Social Change
By Virinda Kalra
Copyright 2000
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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This title was first published in 2000: Contemporary academic studies on economic activity and South Asians in Britain have tended to concentrate on self-employment and entrepreneurial business success, and it may be possible to forget that many South Asians came to Britain to work in declining manufacturing industries. The phrase "from textile mills to taxi ranks" is not only a metonym for... Read more
Introduction. 1. Constructing Labour. 2. Methodology. 3. Migration and Repercussion. 4. Textile Tours. 5. Of Mills and Men. 6. Of Men and Mills. 7. Redundany not Despondent. 8. Take-Away Lives. 9. From Textile Mills to Taxi Ranks. 10. Beyond Labour?
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Virinda Kalra
