Searching for Work: Small-Scale Mobility and Unskilled Labor in Southeast Asia - Softcover

 
9786162151439: Searching for Work: Small-Scale Mobility and Unskilled Labor in Southeast Asia
Softcover
ISBN 10: 6162151433 ISBN 13: 9786162151439
Publisher: University of Washington Press, 2019

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Silvia Vignato is associate professor in anthropology at Universita di Milano-Bicocca and chief editor of Antropologia. Matteo Carlo Alcano is a postdoctoral fellow at Universita di Milano-Bicocca. The contributors are Matteo Carlo Alcano, Vanina Bouté, Michela Cerimele, Concepcion Lagos, Pietro P. Masina, Giacomo Tabacco, and Silvia Vignato.

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Publisher
University of Washington Press
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
6162151433
ISBN 13 
9786162151439
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
312
Editor
Vignato Silvia, Alcano Matteo Carlo