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Searching for Work
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- Book 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.
- 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.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9786162151439
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Silkworm Books, (01 August 2019)
- Number of Pages
- 312
- Weight
- 431 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 151 x 230 x 14 mm
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