1. High Rises and Low Wages: Expatriate Labor in Gulf Arab States
- Author:
- Simon Henderson
- Publication Date:
- 03-2006
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
- Abstract:
- On March 21 and 22 as many as three thousand foreign construction workers rioted in the Persian Gulf emirate of Dubai in protest at conditions on the site where the world's tallest building is being built. Cars and construction machinery were wrecked and office windows broken as the workers demanded higher wages and improved conditions. The unrest highlights the desperate conditions faced by the expatriate labor that performs most of the manual work in the oil-rich Gulf Arab states.
- Topic:
- Economics, Health, and Human Welfare
- Political Geography:
- Arab Countries, Dubai, and Persia