Unfreedom Unbound
Developing a Cumulative Approach to Understanding Unfree Labour in Singapore
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2374232 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yea (0000-0001-9789-479X, La Trobe University, corresponding author), Sallie Yea, Stephanie Chok (Independent Researcher, Singapore) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 925-941 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Work Employment and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0950-0170 • E-ISSN: 1469-8722 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0950017017738956 |
| OpenAlex | W2781793196 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
| References cited | 34 |
This article proposes a cumulative approach to contemporary manifestations of unfree labour based on an exploration of dynamic combinations of common elements of the phenomenon. This understanding challenges enumerative and depoliticized tendencies in current approaches to both characterizing unfree labour and identifying victims. A cumulative approach recognizes the interlocking impacts of multiple forms of compulsion and duress, which shape the choices migrant workers make when their alternatives are severely limited and agency constrained. To illustrate this approach the article draws on a case study of Bangladeshi contract migrant construction workers in Singapore
Agency (philosophy · Epistemology · Phenomenon · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Employment and Welfare Studies · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Sex work and related issues
‘Improving, not leaving’
I Felt Like She Owns Me’
Work as a crime, a resource and a relationship
Unfree Agency
Depletion through transnational social reproduction
Covid-19, Authoritarian Neoliberalism, and Precarious Migrant Work in Singapore
Neoliberal Governmentality and Low-Wage Migrant Labour in India and Singapore
Modern Slavery and the Discursive Construction of a Propertied Freedom
Normalisation of Wage and Benefit Theft in the Bangladeshi Garment Industry
Moralising racial regimes
The city eats the worker
Value, logistics and violence
Unfreedom in labour relations
Nahu-kparilim (cattle caretakership)
Gendered labour process
Migration speculation
The political economy of unfree labor and the state
The lottery of my life”
Between containment and crackdown in Geylang, Singapore
Migrant health as a human right amidst Covid-19
The work-life experiences of an invisible workforce
Singapore's Extreme Neoliberalism and the Covid Outbreak
Gendered disciplinary apparatuses and carceral domesticities in Singapore's labour-migration regime
The trauma of exploitation
Freedom and unfreedom in au pairing
Soft violence
The trade-offs of legal status
Labour Controls, Unfreedom and Perpetuation of Slavery on a Tea Plantation
Building Inequality
Consuming Worker Exploitation? Accounts and Justifications for Consumer (In)action to Modern Slavery
Unfree Labor
Dynamics of Unfree Labour in the Contemporary Global Economy
Jordan's Unfree Workforce
Geographies and Histories of Unfreedom
Trust in Numbers
Biopolitics and the regulation of vulnerability
Unfree Labour Beyond Binaries
Hyper-precarious lives
Migrant Workers in the ILO 's Global Alliance Against Forced Labour Report
Trafficked Enough? Missing Bodies, Migrant Labour Exploitation, and the Classification of Trafficking Victims in Singapore
Many Chains to Break
Unfree Again
Temporary migration, precarious employment and unfree labour relations
The art of not being caught
Building Austin, building justice
Labour Migration and Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia
The Rise of a 'New Slavery'? Understanding African unfree labour through neoliberalism
Life Interrupted
Coerced, Forced and Unfree Labour
New slavery, old binaries
Researching men
The Perfect Business
Defining Trafficking/Denying Justice? Forced Labour in Ireland and the Consequences of Trafficking Discourse
Mobility strategies, 'mobility differentials' and 'transnational exit
Trafficking, Migration, and the Law
A Global Alliance against Forced Labour? Unfree Labour, Neo-Liberal Globalization and the International Labour Organization
Measuring the World
Unfree labour and adverse incorporation in the global economy
| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,75 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 30 |