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Searching for Work

Small-Scale Mobility and Unskilled Labor in Southeast Asia

Matteo Carlo Alcano editor Silvia Vignato editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Silkworm Books / Trasvin Publications LP

Published:1st Aug '19

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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.

"Searching for Work provides absorbing snapshots of what life is like for low and unskilled precarious labour in Southeast Asia today."

ISBN: 9786162151439

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 431g

312 pages