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Title Who needs migrant workers? : labour shortages, immigration, and public policy / edited by Martin Ruhs and Bridget Anderson
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 335 pages)
Contents Introduction / Martin Ruhns and Bridget Anderson -- Migrant workers: who needs them? A framework for the analysis of staff shortages, immigration, and public policy / Bridget Anderson and Martin Ruhs -- Changing shares of migrant labour in different sectors and occupations in the UK economy: an overview / Vanna Aldin, Dan James, and Jonathan Wadsworth -- Achieving a self-sufficient workforce? The utilization of migrant labour in healthcare / Stephen Bach -- Competing with myths: migrant labour in social care / Jo Moriarty -- Use of migrant labour in the hospitality sector: current and future implications / Rosemary Lucas and Steve Mansfield -- UK food businesses' reliance on low-wage migrant labour: a case of choice or constraint? / Andrew Geddes and Sam Scott -- Dynamics of migrant employment in construction: can supply of skilled labour ever match demand? / Paul Chan, Linda Clarke, and Andrew Dainty -- Immigration and the UK labour market in financial services: a case of conflicting policy challenges? / Andrew Jones -- Need for migrant labour? UK-US Comparisons / Philip Martin
Summary This book provides a framework for analysing labour immigration and public policy. It looks at the changing role of migrant workers and the demand for labour across six sectors: health, social care, hospitality, food production, construction, and financial services
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed April 24, 2020)
Subject Foreign workers -- Great Britain
Foreign workers -- Government policy -- Great Britain
Labor supply -- Great Britain
Labor mobility -- Great Britain
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Foreign workers
Foreign workers -- Government policy
Labor mobility
Labor supply
Great Britain
Form Electronic book
Author Ruhs, Martin
Anderson, Bridget (Sociologist)
Oxford University Press
ISBN 9780199580590
0199580596
9780191624308
0191624306
9780191595257
019159525X