Workplace - Nahyun Hwang and David Eugin Moon - Labor Unsettlement

Labor Unsettlement

Nahyun Hwang and David Eugin Moon

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A passageway for workers' dwellings carved through a wall under construction. Some foreign construction workers in Singapore live in active job sites, in what the Ministry of Manpower calls “Construction Temporary Quarters (CTQs) in Uncompleted Permanent Buildings.” Image courtesy of Jolovan Wham.

Workplace
January 2022










Notes
1

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2

Achille Mbembe, “Necropolitics.” In Necropolitics (Duke University Press, 2019).

3

Christo Vosloo, “Extreme Apartheid: The South African System of Migrant Labour and Its Hostels.” Image &Text 34 (2020): 1–33.

4

Housing & Development Board Singapore, “HDB | Public Housing – A Singapore Icon,” .

5

Ministry of Manpower Singapore, “Various Types of Housing and Their Specific Requirements,” .

6

Rhacel Salazar Parreñas and Eileen Boris, eds. Intimate Labors: Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of Care (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010). Rhacel Parreñas, “The International Division of Reproductive Labor.” In Servants of Globalization (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015), 28–52.

7

Arlie Russell Hochschild, “Global Care Chains and Emotional Surplus Value.” In On the Edge: Living with Global Capitalism, Anthony Giddens and Will Hutton eds. (Jonathan Cape, 2000).

8

David Harvey, The Enigma of Capital: And the Crises of Capitalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).

9

Judith Butler, Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? (London and New York: Verso, 2009).

10

Jere Hester, “The Deliveristas’ Long Journey to Justice,” The City (September 23, 2021), .

11

Arundhati Roy, “The Pandemic Is a Portal” Financial Times (April 3, 2020).