Production politics and migrant labour regimes : guest workers in Asia and the Gulf /: guest workers in Asia and the Gulf. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Charanpal Singh Bal.
• Authors: Bal, C
• Contents: Dedication; Acknowledgements; Copyright Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Abbreviations; List of Figures; List of Tables; chapter 1: Production Politics and Migrant Labour Regimes; Approach: The€Centrality of€Production Politics; Navigation Guide; Notes; Bibliography; chapter 2: The Political Economy of Singapore's Migrant Labour Regime: State Policies and Contractor Strategies; Singapore's Migrant Worker Policy; Regulating the€Demand for€Imported Labour: The€Levy System; The Construction Industry in€Singapore; Initial Contractor Responses (1987-1998); EFMA Regulations. Cost Pressures and€Contractor PerspectivesContractor Strategies: Wage Theft; Salary Deductions; Withholding of€Wages; 'Kickbacks'; Indirect Pressures on€Wages; Migrant Worker Powerlessness; Concluding Remarks; Notes; Bibliography; chapter 3: Temporary Bangladeshi Labour Emigrants€to€Singapore; Bangladeshi Temporary Labour Migration to€Singapore; Class-Status Configurations in€Rural Bangladesh and€the€Problems of€Modhom Lok; Class-Status Configurations in€Rural Bangladesh; The Problems of€Being Modhom; 'Making a€Life'; Social and€Moral Expectations of€Migration: Rural€Images of€Bidesh. The Recruitment ProcessPowerlessness in€Recruitment; What Is at Stake: Various Outcomes of€Migration; Concluding Remarks; Notes; Bibliography; chapter 4: Constituting Tactical Obedience in€the€Workplace; Work Arrangements, Control and€Command; Forms of€Supervision; Constant Supervision; Periodic/Punctuated Supervision; Autonomous Work Detachments; Workshop Deployments; Owner-Operator; Wage Theft as€'Company Rules'; Tensions in€the€Workplace: Worker Discontent; Tactical Accommodation; The Tactical Aspects of€Obedience; Employer Responses to€Informal Negotiations. Failure and Passive Non-renewalExplaining the Prevalence of Tactical Accommodation; The Dynamics of Control in the Construction Labour Process; The Manifestation and Strategic Application of Coercion Within the Labour Process; Migration Objectives; Concluding Remarks; Notes; Bibliography; chapter 5: Labour Conflict and the Restoration of Obedience at EW Construction; The Case Study: EW Construction; The Division of Control; Labour Productivity Pressures; Workers of Different Nationalities; Existing Worker Discontent: 'Man Can Up, Money No Up' and 'All Time Body Down' Tactical Accommodation and€Work PacingPeriods of€Surveillance and€Non-Surveillance; Opportunities for€Slow-Downs; The Role of€Supervisors; Justifying Delayed Completion; Rainy Days and€the€Crisis of€Obedience; Supervisory Intervention and€the€Restoration of€Obedience; Small Concessions: Time-Off and€Extra Overtime Hours; Direct Interventions in€Work Pacing; Re-ordering Production Sequence; Seeing Like a€Supervisor: Why They Intervened; The Depoliticisation of€Worker Grievances; Concluding Remarks; Notes; Bibliography; chapter 6: Intimidation, Violence and€the€Compulsions of€Desertion.
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 331.62; Political science; Foreign workers -- Political aspects; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations; Industrial relations; Migrant labor; Social Science -- Emigration & Immigration; Political Science -- Economic Conditions; Business & Economics -- Economics -- General; Migration, immigration & emigration; Political economy; Economic systems & structures; Labour economics; Migration; Political economy; Labor economics; Politics & government; Asia; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137548597; 1137548592
• Related ISBNs: 1137548584; 9781137548580
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 6, 2016).
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