Migrants at Work: Immigration and Vulnerability in Labour, edited by C. Costello and M. Freedland. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2015, 512 pp., ISBN: 978‐0‐19‐871410‐1, £70.00, hardback.
| Author | Ines Wagner |
| Date | 01 December 2016 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12220 |
| Published date | 01 December 2016 |
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an appreciation in this collection that alterations to existing business models involve
significant organizational barriers (Chapter 5) and one of these is related to culture.
Another element concerns motivating employees to identify alterations to existing
business models but also to accept change. This issue is mentioned in passing but
requires perhaps more serious attention.
Overall, this collection is a welcome addition to the business model debate. The
collection perhaps raises more questions than it answers and this reflects the relatively
undeveloped nature of this debate. It is interesting to note that with over1,200 articles
published on business models, a numberof special issues and this book that there are
still important avenuesto explore in understanding the evolving relationship between
finance, revenueappropriation and organizational innovation.
JOHN BRYSON
University of Birmingham
Migrants at Work:Immigration and Vulnerability in Labour, edited by C. Costello and
M. Freedland. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2015, 512 pp., ISBN: 978-0-19-
871410-1, £70.00, hardback.
As Cathy Costello and Mark Freedland note in the introductory chapter of Migrants
at Work: Immigration and Vulnerability in Labour ‘labour lawyers have tended––with
some notable exceptions––to regard migration law, generally speaking, as outside of
their purview,and migration lawyers havesomewhat similarly tended to neglect labour
law’(p. 1). Aiming to address this disjuncture between immigration lawand labour law,
the editors invited established and emerging legal and migration scholars to respond
to the question of how does migration and immigration impact on labour law?
In this edited volume scholars examine the rights of particular groups of workers
within a multilevel legal framework from a variety of disciplines and perspectives.
In the introduction, the editors propose to group the dierent impacts of migration
and migration law on labour law under the concept of division. Labour migration
and migration law, it is argued, highlight the division in the ‘objectives’ of labourlaw,
meaning that labourmigration and migration lawintensify the division between worker
protection, on the one hand, and labour marketsupply, on the other hand.
The dierent chapters in the book approach how the division between migrant
protection and the facilitation of labour supply plays out at the theoretical and
empirical level. The focus of the case studies in chapters 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 18 and 22 is
on countries that have historically attracted migrants such as the United Kingdom,
Australia, Sweden, Ireland, Israel, Germany and the United States. However, the
book also covers those that were formerly primarily labour-sending countries, but
are now also labour-receiving countries such as Italy, Poland and Mexico. Moreover,
Fredman in chapter 21 draws on the experiences of particular practices in Brazil and
South Africa. All of these countries are contemporary hosts to migrants and have
systems designed to deal with various aspects of migration. One common feature in
the immigration law impact on labour law is, for example, the contemporary shift to
using temporary labour migration. In fact, Ruhs in chapter 4 highlights that 90 per
cent of labour migration policies in high-income countries are temporary migration
programmes among which the H-1B programme in the US and the Tier 2 in the UK.
The framework of migrationlaw facilitating the movement of people across borders
exists at the international as well as national level. The way the majority of these
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