This book offers a detailed account of the employment promises made to local East Londoners when the Summer Olympic Games 2012 were awarded to London, as well as an examination of how those promises had morphed into the Olympic Labor market jamboree from which local communities were excluded.
Regarding the global job market of London, this study provides a nuanced empirical view on how the world's biggest mega event was experienced and endured in terms employment by its immediate hosts, in one of the UK's poorest, most ethnically complex, and transient areas. The data has been collected through ethnographic observation and interviews with local residents, and expert interviews with the Olympic delivery professionals. Using Bourdieusian theory of contested capital, the findings provide an important bearing on the reproduction of inequality in the local labor markets of Olympic host cities.

Offers an empirically detailed intervention into a debate that is, to a large extent, politically charged and driven by grand claims and far-reaching projections Fills a gap in the mega event literature by examining the programmes, attempts and barriers to participation of local communities in deprived neighbourhoods, which has remained conspicuously absent from pertinent research to date Provides valuable in-depth research in an empirical field (East London and its migrant communities) that is traditionally difficult to access

Autorentext

Dr. Niloufar Vadiati is research fellow at HafenCity University Hamburg, and consultant at Urbanistic Legacy GbR.

Inhalt
Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Mega-Events: Urban Duality.- Chapter 3 Olympic Games: Legacy versus Delivery.- Chapter 4 London versus East London.- Chapter 5 In Pursuit of Employment Legacy.- Chapter 6 The Career Trajectory of 'Men of Delivery'.- Chapter 7 East Londoners as the Workforce for London 2012.- Chapter 8 Conclusion: Legacy Ambivalence.