In recent years waves of migration from the Middle East, Latin
America and Africa to Europe and North America have been met with a
corresponding rise in anti-immigrant, far-right populism in host
countries, placing the question of migration at the forefront of
politics and social movements. In this sweeping account, Henaway
seeks to understand these patterns through contextualizing global
migration within a history of global capitalism, class formation and
the financialization of migration. As globalization intensifies,
workers everywhere are forced to compete for wages -- not through
foreign investment and outsourcing, but through an increasingly
mobile working class. Henaway rejects the dominant responses of
restricting or "managing" migration through temporary
worker programs, proposing that stopping a race to the bottom for all
working people involves building solidarity with migrant worker
struggles for decent work and justice. Through examining the
organizing strategies of migrant workers at giants like Amazon and
Wal-Mart as well as discount retailers like Dollarama and Sports
Direct, the immense power and agency of precarious workers in global
companies like Uber or Airbnb, the successful resistance of taxi
drivers and fast food workers around the world, and the contemporary
mass labour movement organized by new unions and workers' centres,
Henaway shows how migrant demands and strategies can help shape
radical working class politics.