Class Inequality in the Global City Migrants, Workers and Cosmopolitanism in Singapore / by J. Ye.

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...

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Main Author: Ye, J. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Edition:1st ed. 2016.
Series:Global Diversities,
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