Border Capitalism, Disrupted: Precarity and Struggle in a Southeast Asian Industrial Zone
by Stephen Campbell
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Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.75", is bound in blue cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is new. Dust jacket displays very light shelfwear. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. x/205 pages.
""Border Capitalism, Disrupted" presents an insightful ethnography of migrant labor regulation at the Mae Sot Special Border Economic Zone on the Myanmar border in northwest Thailand. By bringing a new deployment of workerist and autonomist theory to bear on his fieldwork, Stephen Campbell highlights the ways in which workers' struggles have catalyzed transformations in labor regulation at the frontiers of capital in the global south.
Looking outwards from Mae Sot, Campbell engages extant scholarship on flexibilization and precarious labor, which, typically, is based on the development experiences of the global north. Campbell emphasizes the everyday practices of migrants, the police, employers, NGOs, and private passport brokers to understand the "politics of precarity" and the new forms of worker organization and resistance that are emerging in Asian industrial zones.
Focusing, in particular, on the uses and effects of borders as technologies of rule, Campbell argues that geographies of labor regulation can be read as the contested and fragile outcomes of prior and ongoing working-class struggles. "Border Capitalism, Disrupted" concludes that with the weakened influence of formal unions, understanding the role of these alternative forms of working-class organizations in labor-capital relations becomes critical.
With a broad data set gleaned from almost two years of fieldwork, "Border Capitalism, Disrupted" will appeal directly to those in anthropology, labor studies, political economy, and geography, as well as Southeast Asian studies."
""Border Capitalism, Disrupted" presents an insightful ethnography of migrant labor regulation at the Mae Sot Special Border Economic Zone on the Myanmar border in northwest Thailand. By bringing a new deployment of workerist and autonomist theory to bear on his fieldwork, Stephen Campbell highlights the ways in which workers' struggles have catalyzed transformations in labor regulation at the frontiers of capital in the global south.
Looking outwards from Mae Sot, Campbell engages extant scholarship on flexibilization and precarious labor, which, typically, is based on the development experiences of the global north. Campbell emphasizes the everyday practices of migrants, the police, employers, NGOs, and private passport brokers to understand the "politics of precarity" and the new forms of worker organization and resistance that are emerging in Asian industrial zones.
Focusing, in particular, on the uses and effects of borders as technologies of rule, Campbell argues that geographies of labor regulation can be read as the contested and fragile outcomes of prior and ongoing working-class struggles. "Border Capitalism, Disrupted" concludes that with the weakened influence of formal unions, understanding the role of these alternative forms of working-class organizations in labor-capital relations becomes critical.
With a broad data set gleaned from almost two years of fieldwork, "Border Capitalism, Disrupted" will appeal directly to those in anthropology, labor studies, political economy, and geography, as well as Southeast Asian studies."
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- Border Capitalism, Disrupted: Precarity and Struggle in a Southeast Asian Industrial Zone
- Author
- Stephen Campbell
- Book Condition
- New New
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- Fine
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1501711105
- ISBN 13
- 9781501711107
- Publisher
- ILR Press, Cornell University Press
- Date Published
- 2018
- Keywords
- Economics, Asia
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