Precarious Masculinities: Migrant Working Men’s Masculinities as Self-Exploitation in a Mediterranean Restaurant in Glasgow

Panos Theodoropoulos and Sam Lawton-Westerland discuss how ideas of masculinity allow workers to survive the precarious, exploitative conditions they endure in the kitchen of a Mediterranean restaurant in Glasgow; however, this also allows conditions to become normalised.

Panos Theodoropoulos and Sam Lawton-Westerland discuss Panos' ethnography of migrant workers' labour conditions and the subjective resources they draw upon to survive precarity, insecurity and extreme exploitation. They look masculinity's role in migrant working men's subjectification and socialisation of the conditions they endure in the kitchen of a Mediterranean restaurant in Glasgow.

We thank King's College London Centre for Public Policy Research for hosting this event.

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