Migrant waste collectors inThailand’s informal economy
Recent scholarship on primitive accumulation and deagrarianisation in the global South has addressed a decline in formal employment prospects, leaving most expeasants (and their heirs) struggling to earn a livelihood in the informal economy. Taking this phenomenon as a point of departure, and dra...
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| Language: | English |
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2020
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145436 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
| Language: | English |
| Summary: | Recent scholarship on primitive accumulation and deagrarianisation in the global
South has addressed a decline in formal employment prospects, leaving most expeasants
(and their heirs) struggling to earn a livelihood in the informal economy.
Taking this phenomenon as a point of departure, and drawing on the case of migrant
waste collectors in Mae Sot, Thailand, this article examines the multiple ways that
waste collectors are embedded in informal relations of production and exchange. This
variable relational embeddedness has implications, it is argued, for the forms of struggle
available to those engaged in informal labour. |
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