Matt Reynolds
Biographic Data
| ID | 5985195 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matt Reynolds |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matt |
| FAMILY NAME | Reynolds |
| SIGNATURE | REYNOLDS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-0259-332X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Historicising the Employment of Migrant Domestic Workers and ‘Modern Slavery’ in Britain
‘Modern slavery’ not only fails to conceptualise the exploitation of migrant domestic workers from post-colonial nations, but also their affluent employers in post-imperial London. Existing evidence focuses on ‘victims’ or ‘survivors’, with sparse data on whom they work for. This study analyses 200 responses to a survey asking migrant domestic workers about the employers they accompanied to the UK, their post-‘rescue’ employers and the (lack of) …
Downstairs, Upstairs
London’s affluent neighborhoods are often reported as places where employers infringe migrant domestic workers’ rights. Much has been written on both the wealthy’s influence on cities and on domestic workers’ lack of rights, yet few have connected these literatures. In this article, I explore one of the UK’s most expensive addresses, Eaton Square, through contemporary and historical planning documents, to unearth a legacy of segregation masked by…
Landscape in Motion
Ed Ruscha’s photo book Then & Now: Hollywood Boulevard, 1973-2004 consists of two continuous photographic panoramas of the north and south sides of the eponymous street taken thirty years apart. The juxtaposition of these two time periods depicts a dramatic transformation of the neighborhood, a result of the ongoing Hollywood Redevelopment Project (HRP). From its inception in 1986, the HRP has enlisted a nostalgic image of the city during the hey…
Down the Tube
The growth of an American television culture has been slowly poisoning free-market capitalism by eroding the very logic on which capitalism depends. Consumerism is creeping into place as the primary American economic system. The transition from a typographic era to a televised one, and the subsequent reduction in propositionally structured information, has capitalism in its death throes. The presentationally structured symbolic form of television…
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Down the Tube
The growth of an American television culture has been slowly poisoning free-market capitalism by eroding the very logic on which capitalism depends. Consumerism is creeping into place as the primary American economic system. The transition from a typographic era to a televised one, and the subsequent reduction in propositionally structured information, has capitalism in its death throes. The presentationally structured symbolic form of television…
Landscape in Motion
Ed Ruscha’s photo book Then & Now: Hollywood Boulevard, 1973-2004 consists of two continuous photographic panoramas of the north and south sides of the eponymous street taken thirty years apart. The juxtaposition of these two time periods depicts a dramatic transformation of the neighborhood, a result of the ongoing Hollywood Redevelopment Project (HRP). From its inception in 1986, the HRP has enlisted a nostalgic image of the city during the hey…
Downstairs, Upstairs
London’s affluent neighborhoods are often reported as places where employers infringe migrant domestic workers’ rights. Much has been written on both the wealthy’s influence on cities and on domestic workers’ lack of rights, yet few have connected these literatures. In this article, I explore one of the UK’s most expensive addresses, Eaton Square, through contemporary and historical planning documents, to unearth a legacy of segregation masked by…
Historicising the Employment of Migrant Domestic Workers and ‘Modern Slavery’ in Britain
‘Modern slavery’ not only fails to conceptualise the exploitation of migrant domestic workers from post-colonial nations, but also their affluent employers in post-imperial London. Existing evidence focuses on ‘victims’ or ‘survivors’, with sparse data on whom they work for. This study analyses 200 responses to a survey asking migrant domestic workers about the employers they accompanied to the UK, their post-‘rescue’ employers and the (lack of) …
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