Voices from ‘backstage’: London nightworkers before and during the pandemic

MacQuarie, Julius-Cezar; Martin, Shirley

Voices from ‘backstage’: London nightworkers before and during the pandemic

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MacQuarie & Martin 2020 Voice from Backstage.pdf(287.9 KB)

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Date

2020-10-19

Authors

MacQuarie, Julius-Cezar

Martin, Shirley

Publisher

Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS)

Published Version

10.6084/m9.figshare.13110635.v3

Abstract

Nightworkers, who move in the night as a means of earning a living, remain largely invisible from the mainstream society, pandemic times or not. Yet their fears, uncertainties and acts of courage are equally revealing of what it means to be mobile in these times of immobility.

Keywords

Nightworkers , Precarity , Ethnography , Covid-19 , Migration , Workers' rights , Night shift , Night work , London , Spitalfields , Social and Cultural Anthropology

Citation

MacQuarie, J.-C. and Martin, S. (2020) Voices From 'Backstage': London Nightworkers Before and During the Pandemic, Blog Post, Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS), Coronavirus and Mobility Forum, Available online: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13110635.v3