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London versus East London

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Abstract

Contemporary London as a global and multicultural city is in part a product of its transnational relations and its postcolonial challenges, which has been recently characterised by the term ‘super-diversity’.

While respecting the diversity of today’s London, in order to engage with the complexities existing between labour and capital in London, the dual-city notion of the transnational class and the reserved army of labour have been considered as the most relevant conceptual model to explain its occupational structure.

If London is a highly diverse city with a very complex demographical pattern, East London is at the core of this intense dynamic. This chapter also provides a vivid portrait of the particular character of occupational structure in East London with a particular history of in-migration, socio-spatial segregation and ‘super-diversity’ among local businesses.

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    Over-education refers to the situation when a job-holder has an achieved qualification above that which would currently be required for someone to get the job (rather than to do the job).

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Vadiati, N. (2020). London versus East London. In: The Employment Legacy of the 2012 Olympic Games. Mega Event Planning. Palgrave Pivot, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0598-0_4

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