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The types of relationships that Latin Americans in low-paid work forge within the workplace are often embedded amongst wider structural inequalities that shape employment-related networks across London. Our research suggests that the workplace is as much a site of solidarity and integration as it is a site of power and conflict and that gender, class, nationality, legal status and ethnicity are intertwined in everyday work interactions. We argue that social networks are important for settling in and finding a first job, but these networks are often part of a commercial transaction open for exploitative negotiations, with further consequences in the nature of the relationships that might form in the workplace. |
