Locating Neoliberalism in Dubai: Migrant Workers and Class Struggle in the Autocratic City

Antipode

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 256-274

  Buckley, Michelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autocracy; Dubai; Labour rights; Migrant labour; Neoliberalization; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

CLASS; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; MIGRANT WORKER; NEOLIBERALISM; URBANIZATION; WORKING CONDITIONS;

DUBAI [UNITED ARAB EMIRATES]; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

EID: 84873460285     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2012.01002.x     Document Type: Article

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