Searching for Work Small-Scale Mobility and Unskilled Labor in Southeast Asia |
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| Editor:
| Vignato, Silvia
Alcano, Matteo Carlo |
| ISBN: | 978-616-215-143-9 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2019 |
| Publisher: | Silkworm Books
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $40.00 |
Book Description:
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Small-scale, work-related mobility has become a constitutive feature of modern local Southeast Asian societies. This unique volume traces the lives of low-paid, mostly young, unskilled migrants who have moved away from their villages of origin in search of a job: contractual farmers in Laos; miners, young urban service workers, and construction workers in Indonesia; shoemakers in the Philippines; and factory workers in Vietnam. The case studies show how ill-defined work leads to...
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Small-scale, work-related mobility has become a constitutive feature of modern local Southeast Asian societies. This unique volume traces the lives of low-paid, mostly young, unskilled migrants who have moved away from their villages of origin in search of a job: contractual farmers in Laos; miners, young urban service workers, and construction workers in Indonesia; shoemakers in the Philippines; and factory workers in Vietnam. The case studies show how ill-defined work leads to lives of structural and symbolic precariousness and reshapes the migrants? own moral visions of work, identity, and belonging.