Research plan

The plan for this project is to focus on six sectors of the economy in which migrant workers are known to be employed in low-paid work:

• London Underground (cleaning)
• General office cleaning
• Hospitality
• Home care work
• Construction
• Food processing

In each case, we plan to conduct interviews with workers and employers, including representatives from employers' associations in the sector - 120 workers, 20 employers.

Interviews will then be conducted with a sub-set of the workers interviewed - 60 interviews.

Focus groups with low-paid migrant workers will be conducted during the lifetime of the project to back up the findings and explore ideas in more depth - 20 in total.

Policy interviews with relevant people from GLA, national government and political organisations - 20 interviews.

Background data will be used from the LFS and 2001 Census.

To hear a short audio recording summarising some of the key findings from the research, click on this link to the ESRC website.

 

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