„In what is a very refreshing contrast to many of the more recent accounts of immaterial labor, which tend to focus on the highly skilled and well-paid sectors of the labor market and, to a great extent, on an undifferentiated image of the postindustrial worker, McDowell foregrounds the actual laboring bodies of migrant women, marked as they are by gender, skin color, nationality, class, ethnicity, and other signs of difference.“ (Economic Geography, 1 January 2015)
„Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.“ (Choice, 1 February 2014)
Review appeared in Times Higher Education - 10 October 2013
„McDowell provides intriguing, important insights into the female immigrant experience, drawing selectively on interviews with sections of this complex shifting population. It is too diverse an experience to survey comprehensively in a short book, but it whets my appetite for a fuller version that draws on all of the interviews she conducted.“ (Times Higher Education, 10 October 2013)
Full of unique and compelling insights into the working lives of migrant women in the UK, this book draws on more than two decades of in-depth research to explore the changing nature of women's employment in post-war Britain.
* A first-rate example of theoretically located empirical analysis of labour market change in contemporary Britain
* Includes compelling case studies that combine historical documentation of social change with fascinating first-hand accounts of women's working lives over decades
* Integrates information gleaned from more than two decades of in-depth research
* Revealing comparative analysis of the similarities and differences in the lives of immigrant working women in post-war Britain
* Features real-life accounts of women's under-reported experiences of migration
* A first-rate example of theoretically located empirical analysis of labour market change in contemporary Britain
* Includes compelling case studies that combine historical documentation of social change with fascinating first-hand accounts of women's working lives over decades
* Integrates information gleaned from more than two decades of in-depth research
* Revealing comparative analysis of the similarities and differences in the lives of immigrant working women in post-war Britain
* Features real-life accounts of women's under-reported experiences of migration
