1st Edition

One Way Ticket Migration and Female Labour

Edited By Annie Phizacklea Copyright 1983
174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

One Way Ticket (1983) examines the ‘hidden armies’ of migrant women workers who have since the 1950s fulfilled a demand for low-skilled, low paid and insecure work in both the formal and informal economies of Western Europe. It presents a new focus for the examination of labour migration and of the specific character of female employment. It looks at the relationship between motherhood, waged... Read more

Introduction Annie Phizacklea  1. Women in Migration: Beyond the Reductionist Outlook Mirjana Morokvasic  2. Motherhood and Waged Work: West Indian, Asian and White Mothers Compared Karen Stone  3. The Second Generation: West Indian Female School-Leavers Shirley Dex  4. Sexual Divisions and Ethnic Adaptation: The Case of Greek-Cypriot Women Floya Anthias  5. In the Front Line Annie Phizacklea  6. Living in Between: Turkish Women in their Homeland and in the Netherlands Lenie Brower and Marijke Priester  7. Transnational Production and Women Workers Mary Hancock

Biography

Annie Phizacklea