Immigrant Workers and Class Sructure in Western Europe
İÇİNDEKİLERContents PREFACE 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. Characteristics of the immigrants (a) Home background (b) Regional distribution in Western Europe (c) Demographic structure (d) Length of stay III. POSITION ON THE LABOUR MARKET 1. The immigrant contribution to the labour force 2. Employment (a) France (b) Switzerland (c) Germany (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 TV. 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. studies . 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 . Conclusions 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 justiceFamily and social life (a) Single immigrant workers (b) Family reunification (c) Immigrant children Conclusions IX. THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF MIGRATION 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 migntion policies X. PREJUDICE, RACE, AND CLASS 1.Hostility towards immigrants (a) Attitude surveys (b) The anti-immigrant lobby (c) Prejudice towards different immigrant groups2. 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  |
