The rhetoric of the `good worker' versus the realities of employers' use and the experiences of migrant workers

By Robert MacKenzie, C. Forde. 2009

346 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Public Administration, Sociology and Political Science

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In General Health Professions

1. D. McCollum
2. A. Findlay
3. Zinovijus Ciupijus
4. Chris Tilly
5. Austin Zwick
6. B. Anderson

In Public Administration

1. D. McCollum
2. A. Findlay
3. Austin Zwick
4. Zinovijus Ciupijus
5. Chris Tilly
6. B. Anderson

In Sociology and Political Science

1. D. McCollum
2. A. Findlay
3. Zinovijus Ciupijus
4. Chris Tilly
5. Austin Zwick
6. B. Anderson

Citations in the corpus

• Migration, immigration controls and the fashioning of precarious workers (2010, background): “Employers can express this development in pseudo-cultural terms, claiming that as migrants stay longer in the UK they become more ‘British’, more demanding and intractable (MacKenzie and Forde, 2009).”
• The impact of the economic crisis on international migration: a review (2011, background): “Employers laud immigrants for their superior work ethic, but employ them in worse jobs and pay them less (MacKenzie and Forde, 2009; Moss and Tilly, 2001).”
• Welcome to the Gig Economy: neoliberal industrial relations and the case of Uber (2017, background): “When the worksite is immobile, then firms resort to recruiting economically vulnerable—often migrant— workers regardless of the price of local labor (Menz 2001; Traxler and Woitech 2000) in order to maintain a pool of docile, disciplined workers who are often subject to different terms of employment”
• ‘Flexible’ workers for ‘flexible’ jobs? The labour market function of A8 migrant labour in the UK (2015, background): “Employers often attribute their use of migrant labour to a paucity of domestic labour willing and able to engage in poorly paid, insecure or undesirable work (MacKenzie and Forde, 2009).”
• Mobile central eastern Europeans in Britain: successful European Union citizens and disadvantaged labour migrants? (2011, background): “discourse of employers describing EU migrants as good workers (MacKenzie and Forde, 2009) creates a potential backlash against CEEs.”