Issue #65 Laboring One to Seven (Island of Terror)

Laboring One to Seven (Island of Terror)

Guy Mannes-Abbott

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A worker rests in front of a promotional banner on Saadiyat Island. Photo: Human Rights Watch
Issue #65
May 2015










Notes
1

Karl Marx, Capital Vol. I (London: Penguin, 1990), 128.

2

Ibid., 388.

3

Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx (London: Routledge, 1994), 4.

4

Ibid.

5

Ibid., 6–7.

6

Marx, Capital Vol. I, 163.

7

Derrida, Specters of Marx, 150.

8

Bruno Latour, quoted in Graham Harman, Bruno Latour: Reassembling the Political (London: Pluto, 2014), 111.

9

See .

10

Federal Law No. 8 for 1980, quoted in “Migrant Workers’ Rights on Saadiyat Island in the UAE, Progress Report,” Human Rights Watch, 2015, 25.

11

PwC November 2014 report .

12

“Gulf Labor's Observations and Recommendations after Visiting Saadiyat Island and Related Sites (March 14–21, 2014),” 9. See .

13

Marx, Capital Vol. I, 390.

14

Ibid.

15

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto (London: Penguin, 1979), 78.

16

Ibid., 97.

17

Derrida, Specters of Marx, 174.