Searching for Work - Small-Scale Mobility and Unskilled Labor in Southeast Asia (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Silkworm Books
Country of origin:	Thailand
Release date:	August 2019
Editors:	Silvia Vignato • Matteo Carlo Alcano
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	312
ISBN-13:	978-6162151439
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Work & labour
LSN:	6162151433
Barcode:	9786162151439

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