Valued waste/wasted value: Waste, value and the labour process in electronic waste recycling in Singapore and Malaysia

• Main Author: WONG, Aidan Marc
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: circuit of capital; informal labour; labour agency; labour process; value; waste; Political Science; Sociology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research_all/16; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/cis_research_all/article/1015/viewcontent/249134349valuedwaste.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper focuses on value creation in electronic waste, and supports the argument (c.f. Herod et al., 2014) that 'waste' embodies congealed labour - the product of the labour process. This analysis of itinerant rag-and-bone collectors demonstrates that value creation by informal labour a...