'Cute face and quiet but her look don't match her personality': Commodifying flesh, shaping labour expectations and domestic workers' treatment in Singapore
'Cute face and quiet but her look don't match her personality': Commodifying flesh, shaping labour expectations and domestic workers' treatment in Singapore
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“可爱的面孔和安静，但她的外表与她的个性不符”：新加坡的肉体商品化、塑造劳工期望和家政工人的待遇
DOI：
10.1111/tran.12589
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发表时间：
2022
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Antona L
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作者：
Antona L
虽然这是公认的，家政工作早已商品化，本文建立在现有的文献，以显示就业机构如何使用生产的生物数据，同时，战略性地，同质化和区分家政工人在新加坡的种族商品。因此，并建立在现有的文献种族化，身体商品化，身体和家庭劳动力，本文开发了“肉体商品”的概念来传达家庭工人的定位为种族化，俘虏，可替代的，同时同质化和差异化的身体对象。此外，本文将提请注意更广泛的影响，就业机构的市场，崇拜，然后出售家庭佣工的过程。它首先说明招聘做法如何影响对家政工人的劳动要求/期望，然后说明他们的生活和工作条件及关系也如何受到影响。通过与民族志数据的接触，本文还展示了家政工人的人性，人格和机构如何不断竞争和撤销将他们变成商品的企图。
While it is well established that domestic work has long been commodified, this paper builds on existing literature to show how employment agencies use the production of biodata to simultaneously, and strategically, homogenise and differentiate domestic workers in Singapore as racialised commodities. As such, and building on existing literatures on racialisation, bodily commodification, corporeality and domestic labour, this paper develops the concept of ‘fleshly commodity’ to convey domestic workers' positioning as racialised, captive, fungible and simultaneously homogenised and differentiated corporeal objects. Moreover, this paper will bring attention to the broader implications of the processes by which employment agencies market, fetishize, and then sell domestic workers. It does so by illuminating how recruitment practices shape the labour required/expected of domestic workers, before demonstrating how their living and working conditions and relations are also impacted. Through engagement with ethnographic data, this paper also demonstrates how domestic workers' humanity, personhood and agency continually contest and undo attempts to render them fleshly commodities.