Precarious: The Lives of Migrant Workers
Marcello Di Cintio, "Precarious: The Lives of Migrant Workers"
English | ISBN: 1771966599 | 2025 | 342 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 1771966599 | 2025 | 342 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
Winner of the 2024 Dave Greber Freelance Writers Book Award
A series of profiles of foreign workers illuminates the precarity of global systems of migrant labor and the vulnerability of their most disenfranchised agents.
In 2023, after weeks of investigation, United Nations Special Rapporteur Tomoyo Obokata came to a scathing conclusion: Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker program is “a breeding ground for contemporary forms of slavery.” Workers complained of excessive hours and unpaid overtime; of being forced to perform dangerous tasks or ones not specified in their contracts; of being physically abused, intimidated, and sexually harassed; and of overcrowded, unsanitary living conditions that deprived them of their privacy and dignity.
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