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Immigrant Workers and Class Structure in Western Europe
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Book : Immigrant Workers and Class Structure in Western Europe Author : * Stephen Castles * Godula Kosack Language : English Library : Population Publish Place : London ISBN : 0 19 218197 1 Publish Date : January 1973 Publisher : Institute of Race Relations Book Type : Book Book Number : 2010 |
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INDEX
ContentsPREFACE
PRINCIPAL ABBREVIATIONS USED
LISTS OF TABLES
I. INTRODUCTION -
1. Immigration and'race relations'
2. Immigrants in Europe
3. Methods and scope of the study
4. Terminology :
II. MIGRATION TO WESTERN EUROPE
1. Industrialization and labour migration before 1945
2. Migration since 1945
(a) Causes of migration
(b) Development of the movements
(c) Towards a European labour market?
3. Gharacteristics of the immigrants
(a) Home background
(b) Regional distribution in Western Europe
(c) Demographic structure
(d) Length of stay
POSITION ON THE LABOUR MARKET
1. The immigrant contribution to the labour force
2. Employment
(a) France
(b) Switzerland
(c) Get many
(d) Britain
3. Socio-economic status
4.Unemployment
5. Causes of the immigrants' position on the labour market
(a) Level of qualification before migration
(b) Immigrant workers' special aims
(c) Official restrictions on immigrant workers
(d) Discrimination
6. Conclusions
IV. TRADE UNION POLICIES AND INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES
1. Divisive factors
(a) Traditional hostility to immigrant labour
(b) Language
(c) Cultural background
(d) Aims
(e) Qualifications
(f) The segregated work-situation
(g) Legal position
2. Trade union policies
(a) The dilemma of the unions
(b) Germany
(c) France
(d) Britain
(e) Switzerland
3. Immigrant workers in labour disputes: twelve case
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4. Conclusions
V. EDUCATION AND VOCATIONAL TRAINING FOR ADULT IMMIGRANTS
1. Language and literacy
(a) The need for special courses
(b) Provisions for literacy and language instructions
(c) Problems concerning literacy and language
courses
2. Vocational training
(a) Participation of immigrants in training courses
(b) Provisions made for training migrants
(c) Problems concerning vocational training
VI. THE EDUCATION OF IMMIGRANT CHILDREN
1. School attendance
2. Problems encountered by immigrant children at school
3. The'dispersal policy'
4. Special educational provisions for immigrant children
(a) Language teaching
(b) Maintaining the original language and culture
5. Higher education and employment prospects for immigrant children
(a) Immigrant children in higher education
(b) Immigrant school-leavers
VII.. HOUSING
1. The general housing situation
2. Special housing for immigrant workers
(a) Scope of special housing
(b) Housing provided solely by the employers
(c) Publicly financed hostels for single workers
(d) Advantages and disadvantages of special housing
3. The private housing market
(a) Discrimination
(b) Germany
(c) Switzerland
(d) Britain
(e) France
4. Public housing
5. Conclusions
VIII. PROBLEMS OF ADAPTATION
1. Health
(a) State of health at the time of migration
(b) Health among immigrant populations
(c) Mental health
(d) Industrial accidents
2. Criminality
(a) Immigrants' rate of criminality
(b) Types of crime committed by immigrants
(c) Discrimination against immigrants in the administration of justice
Family and social life
(a) Single immigrant workers
(b) Family reunification
(c) Immigrant children Conclusions
IX.THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF MIGRTION
1. Introduction
2. Wages and profits
(a) The general wage level
(b) Relative wage levels
(c) Occupational promotion of indigenous workers
3. Is immigration inflationary?
4. The balance of payments
5. Productivity
(a) Labour distribution between high and low pro-
ductivity sectors
(b) Better use of capacity
(c) Reduction in the average level of qualification
of workers
(d) Rationalization of production
(e) More efficient production units
(f) Productivity in general
6. Effects on the emigration countries
(a) The transfer of human resources
(b) Population and labour force
(c) Acquisition of skills by migrants
(d) Remittances
(e) Growth
7. Economic interests and migration policies
PREJUDICE, RACE, AND CLASS
I. Hostility towards immigrants
(a) Attitude surveys
(b) The anti-immigrant lobby
(c) Prejudice towards different immigrant groups
The causes of prejudice
(a) General causes of prejudice
(b) Causes of the high rate of prejudice among the working class
(c) The function of prejudice
XI. IMMIGRANT WORKERS AND CLASS STRUCTURE
1.. The concept of class structure
2. The impact of immigration
APPENDIX ON STATISTICAL SOURCES
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
