Chapter 4. Employer-worker relationships: buying “personhood”

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27 juin 2014

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immigration travail immigration work Economics Area Studies SOC020000 JFSL1

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Working conditions Personnel Workers Laborers Negotiations Bargaining Haggling Negotiating Higgling Dickering Migration, International Immigration International migration Foreign population Immigration

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Sandra Paola Alvarez Tinajero, « Chapter 4. Employer-worker relationships: buying “personhood” », Graduate Institute Publications, ID : 10.4000/books.iheid.1731

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The employment relationships of foreign farm and care workers in Ragusa are complex and asymmetrical. Such relations depend on the definition and continuous negotiation of the respective social positions, and boundaries between employers and workers, along the lines of class, ethnicity, nationality, and gender. Although employment relationships involve a commercial transaction (the exchange of labor against wages), the human dimension of such transaction renders more complex the negotiation o...

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