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Dimensions of Precarity

Spaces, Constraints, and Tensions in Organizing Migrant Domestic Workers in Malaysia, Labor and Globalization 27

Erschienen am 08.09.2023, 1. Auflage 2023
Bibliografische Daten
ISBN/EAN: 9783985420490
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 273 S.
Einband: kartoniertes Buch

Beschreibung

This study argues that the spaces, limits and strategies in organising domestic workers are informed and shaped by a countrys political economy and labour regime. It is guided by the theoretical frameworks of Robert Coxs Neo-Gramscian action framework and Social Reproduction Theory in its analysis. These frameworks of analysis illuminate the relations of social forces engendered through the particular relations of production and reproduction, and they provide the conceptual tools with which to explain the dimensions of precarity and organising strategies that shape and constrain the spaces involved in organising migrant domestic workers. This study proposes that the interlocking dimensions of precarity perpetuate and result in the cycle of disempowerment, disposability and exclusion of migrant domestic workers in Malaysia.