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

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Searching for Work: Small-Scale Mobility and Unskilled Labor in Southeast Asia - Vignato, Silvia (Editor), and Alcano, Matteo Carlo (Editor)
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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 ...

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Searching for Work: Small-Scale Mobility and Unskilled Labor in Southeast Asia 2019, University of Washington Press, Seattle

ISBN-13: 9786162151439

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