The world seen from a taxi : students-migrants-workers in the global multiplication of labour

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    Abstract

    In April 2008, after the stabbing of one of their fellow workers, taxi drivers in the Australian city of Melbourne, many of them from India, blockaded the city. They chanted, removed their shirts, refused the ministrations of police and government, and through their actions forced an acceptance of their demands. The article takes this event as a point of departure to analyse new forms of political practice, experience and subjectivity that emerge in a world where international borders are no longer the only or necessarily the most relevant barriers for dividing or restricting the mobility of labour. Of particular interest is the fact that most of the drivers who participated in the strike are also international students. At stake is the emergence of a new kind of labour politics whose organisational forms are at once more flexible and more unstable than those of the trade union movement.
    Original languageEnglish
    Number of pages20
    JournalSubjectivity
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2009

    Keywords

    • borders
    • citizenship
    • education, higher
    • emigration and immigration
    • inclusion
    • labor struggles

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