I'll do it step by step : care, cover and quiet campaigning
McGuire, Darren and Lozada, Maria (2017) I'll do it step by step : care, cover and quiet campaigning. Work, Employment and Society, 31 (1). pp. 175-184. ISSN 0950-0170 (https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017016655262)
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Abstract
This article explores a frontline account of care work and trade union organizing from the perspective of Maria Lozada, a care support worker and Filipino trade union organizer. Her testimony offers insight into life as a worker and organizer in the UK and highlights how migrants from outside the EU reflect upon immigration restriction and what it means for the quality of their employment relations and abilities to organize. The political and economic policy context within which the narrative is set is a move away from a demand-led UK immigration regime to further restriction for low-skilled work and immigration. Maria speaks about her role from a position of shelter, cover and anonymity, but is candid in her assessment of employers, policy changes and policymakers.
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McGuire, Darren ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5489-3495 and Lozada, Maria;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 72339 Dates: DateEvent1 February 2017Published15 August 2016Published Online15 July 2016AcceptedSubjects: Social Sciences Department: Strathclyde Business School > Work, Organisation and Employment Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 13 May 2020 10:25 Last modified: 12 Dec 2024 09:43 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/72339