Waterstones Inside Qatar
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Price: £10.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: Just 75 years ago, the Gulf nation of Qatar was a backwater, reliant on pearl diving. Today it is a gas-laden parvenu with seemingly limitless wealth and ambition. Skyscrapers, museums and futuristic football stadiums rise out of the desert and Ferraris race through the streets. But in the shadows, migrant workers toil in the heat for risible amounts. Inside Qatar reveals how real people live in this surreal place, a land of both great opportunity and great iniquity. Ahead of Qatar's time in the limelight as host of the 2022 FIFA Men's World Cup, anthropologist John Mc Manus lifts a lid on the hidden worlds of its gilded elite, its spin doctors and thrill seekers, its manual labourers and domestic workers. The sum of their tales is not some exotic cabinet of curiosities. Instead, Inside Qatar opens a window onto the global problems - of unfettered capitalism, growing inequality and climate change - that concern us all.
Category: Books
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781785788215
Delivery cost: 2.99
ISBN: 9781785788215
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Author: Kristina Borkertaite
Rating: 5
Review: Such wonderful insight. Great way to know what is going on in there. Brilliant read.
Author: Neasa MacErlean
Rating: 3
Review: Well done on John McManus for writing this timely book on this small state where 72 per cent of residents are men. This centre for destructive capitalism is a warning to us all (and Britain has been edging closer that way). McManus highlights the way workers are treated like animals — not just that they die in deadly (especially high temperature) work conditions but also that many do not get paid. What kind of evil is it that makes the super wealthy hold back on paying salaries? It is the evil which turns those unpaid workers into slaves (since that is part of the definition of slavery — being forced to work for no return). But what is difficult for me in this book is the way it is written. He describes his research programme in the state, and the people he meets — and that spins out the pages to make it book length. It is heavy-going to read as a result. The writing is uninspiring. So I ended up skimming.
