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
Should be back in stock very soon
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