Precarious Work and Flexibilization in South and Southeast Asia

Hewison, Kevin; Kalleberg, Arne L.

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“…"Contrary to many expectations", Chang writes, "that growing national wealth or poverty reduction could resolve the problem of the growing informal sector in developing countries, the bigger the economy grew, the bigger became the population that came to work informally" (Chang, 2009, p. 165). In some cases, the hazards and health risks of work as well as its insecurity have also increased (Hewison and Kalleberg, 2013). This process of informalisation occurs in different ways and countries have their own distinctive informalisation pathways.…”

Section: Thread 1: Sectoral and Livelihood Change And Community Resilmentioning

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Building liberal resilience? A critical review from developing rural Asia

Rigg

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2015

Global Environmental Change

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Additional information:Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Abstract 'Resilience' is the catchword of the moment. For many of the mainstream institutions of international development, building resilience is embedded in a wider commitment to market liberalism. Taking three entry points, the sectoral, spatial and socio-governmental, this paper critically explores the connections, interdependencies and tensions between social resilience and the market imperative. The paper argues that 'liberal resilience' plays into a growth-developmentresilience 'trap' wherein economic growth has become a de facto synonym for development and, often, development a synonym for resilience. Drawing on empirical cases from across rural Asia we highlight the incongruities and inconsistencies in this line of logic. The paper suggests that there is a need to critically judge the market mechanism and the complex and sometimes contradictory ways in which the processes that have been set in train by market integration impinge on resilience.

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Section: Thread 1: Sectoral and Livelihood Change And Community Resilmentioning

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Building liberal resilience? A critical review from developing rural Asia

Rigg

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2015

Global Environmental Change

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“…Lankstumas kaip principas tapo svarbus kalbant apie įvairias su darbo santykiais susijusias dimensijas: pvz., atlyginimų lankstumas reiškė, kad alga turi priklausyti nuo paklausos ir gali lengvai kisti (dažniausiai ne darbuotojo naudai); įdarbinimo lankstumas reiškė, kad įmonėse nesunkiai ir su kuo mažesniais kaštais būtų galima pakeisti darbuotojų įdarbinimo statusą, o tai neišven-giamai siejosi su mažėjančia darbuotojų socialine apsauga; darbo lankstumas reiškė, kad įmonės gali labai paprastai ir be didelių finansinių nuostolių perkelti darbuotoją iš vienos pozicijos į kitą įmonės viduje; įgūdžių lankstumas reiškė, kad darbuotojų įgūdžiai lengvai pritaikomi ir keičiami pagal rinkos poreikius. Bendrąja prasme lankstumas, kurį propagavo klasikiniai neoliberalai, reiškė sisteminį darbuotojų silpninimą ir nesaugumo didinimą vardan geresnių galimybių vystyti verslus ir pritraukti investicijas (Harvey, 2012;Piketti 2014;Hewison, Kalleberg, 2013;Standing, 2009Standing, ir 2011Krugman, 2014 ir kt. ).…”

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“…Antrajame skyriuje "Prekariatas" aptariama prekariato samprata ir nagrinėjama, kokios ypatybės leidžia ją apibūdinti. Daugiausia remtasi Guy Standingo koncepcija, bet, šalia šio autoriaus prekariato koncepto, siekiama analizuoti ir kitų autorių (Bennett et al, 2009;Casas-Cortes, 2014;Hewison, Kalleberg, 2013;Munk, 2013;Bommes, Geddes, 2000;Butler, 2009Butler, ir 2011Tsianos, Papadopoulos, 2006 ir kt. ) požiūrius, kurie labiausiai atsiskleidžia ketvirtajame straipsnio "Prekariato kritika ir galimybės" skyriuje.…”

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Prekariatas: vienos klasės požymių visuma ar visus persmelkianti patirtis?

Dryžaitė¹

2017

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Santrauka: Prekariatas yra daugialypis, nepaliaujamai kintantis fenomenas, todėl jį konceptualizuoti ir tyrinėti empiriškai ypač sudėtinga. Remiantis įvairiomis teorinėmis perspektyvo-Reikšminiai žodžiai : prekariatas, prekaritetas, socialinė klasė, statusas, tapatybė, moderni visuomenė, neoliberalizmas, kapitalizmas, socialinis nesaugumas, nestabilumas. ĮvadasPolitinėje ir viešojoje erdvėje didžiausias dėmesys skiriamas materialinio skurdo priežasčių ir sąlygų analizei siekiant suvokti ir apibrėžti skurdą bei socialinę atskirtį. Vis dėlto tuo atveju skurdas ir jo samprata savotiškai suniveliuojami orientuojantis į ekonomines jo kilmės priežastis ir nepastebint kitokių apraiškų, kurias gali sąlygoti ne tik materialinės sąlygos, bet ir tokios dimensijos kaip gyvenimo galimybės, galios svertai, statusas, disponuojamas kapitalas, gebėjimai, kultūrinis kontekstas ir pan. Socialinės atskirties analizėse skurdas, kuris nagrinėjamas tokių problemų kaip ilgalaikis nedarbas,

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“…Globally this trend has created the basic problem of balancing flexibility for employers and security for migrant labourers. For employers, indirect recruitment strategies reduce costs, cut the permanent workforce, and maximize flexibility (Hewison and Kalleberg 2012). On the other hand, labourers receive less benefits and protections.…”

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“…On the other hand, labourers receive less benefits and protections. While outsourced and temporary work is not the only form of precarious employment routinely offered to the migrant labourers, the typical features of precarious work include a wide range of employment arrangements such as work provided by individual labour recruiters that offer low wages, few or no benefits, limited or no collective representation, and job insecurity (Anderson 2010, Beck 2000, Hewison and Kalleberg 2012, Ross 2009, Standing 2011, Vosko 2009). The construction sector in Asian countries, Bangladesh in particular, represents many of these features.…”

Section: Reza: Hyper-individualized Recruitmentmentioning

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Hyper-individualized recruitment: Rural-urban labour migration and precarious construction work in Bangladesh

Reza

2016

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Indirect recruitment through individual recruiters triggers specific areas of precarious employment in the construction sector of Bangladesh. This paper critically examines the navigating role of individual recruiters in determining precarious work conditions for the rural-urban migrant labourers. It unpacks the inter-connections between recruitment practices, rural-urban labour migration and precarious employment in the construction sector of Bangladesh. Taking the case study of migrant construction labourers in Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh, it draws on surveys and in-depth interviews to examine specific conditions of individualized recruitment practices and employment relations that contribute to various pressures and insecurities amongst migrant construction labourers. Examining labour recruitment through the lens of precarious work, this paper argues that neoliberal practices have led to indirect recruitment practices where the pronounced existence of individual recruiters as the key actors underpins the precariousness of construction labour in Bangladesh.

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Precarious Work and Flexibilization in South and Southeast Asia

Cited by 87 publications

References 13 publications

Building liberal resilience? A critical review from developing rural Asia

Building liberal resilience? A critical review from developing rural Asia

Prekariatas: vienos klasės požymių visuma ar visus persmelkianti patirtis?

Hyper-individualized recruitment: Rural-urban labour migration and precarious construction work in Bangladesh

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