Description: Class Inequality in the Global City Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Migrants, Workers and Cosmopolitanism in Singapore Author(s): J. Ye Format: Hardback Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, United Kingdom Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 9781137436146, 978-1137436146 Synopsis In striving to become cosmopolitan, global cities aim to attract highly-skilled workers while relying on a vast underbelly of low-waged, low status migrants. This book tells the story of one such city, revealing how national development produces both aspirations to be cosmopolitan and to improve one's class standing, along with limitations in achieving such aims. Through the analysis of three different groups of workers in Singapore, Ye shows that cosmopolitanism is an exclusive and aspirational construct created through global and national development strategies, transnational migration and individual senses of identity. This dialectic relationship between class and cosmopolitanism is never free from power and is constituted through material and symbolic conditions, struggles and violence. Class is also constituted through 'the self' and lies at the very heart of different constructions of personhood as they intersect with gender, race, sexuality, ethnicity and nationality.
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Book Title: Class Inequality in the Global City
Number of Pages: 193 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Class Inequality in the Global City: Migrants, Workers and Cosmopolitanism in Singapore
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication Year: 2016
Subject: Sociology, Transportation
Item Height: 216 mm
Item Weight: 397 g
Type: Textbook
Author: J. Ye
Subject Area: Social Work, Family Sociology
Series: Global Diversities
Item Width: 140 mm
Format: Hardcover
