Debt‐Bonded Brick Kiln Workers and Their Intent to Return: Towards a Labour Geography of Smallholder Farming Persistence in Cambodia
Debt‐Bonded Brick Kiln Workers and Their Intent to Return: Towards a Labour Geography of Smallholder Farming Persistence in Cambodia
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负债的砖窑工人及其回归意愿：柬埔寨小农持续性的劳动地理
作者：
N. Natarajan;Laurie Parsons;K. Brickell
尽管柬埔寨的非农业工作越来越占优势，但各种工作条件下的劳动力移民仍然通过持久的财务和社会安排与他们的农村家园联系在一起。本文以金边的砖窑工人为例，探讨了这一现象。本文首先从劳动力地理学的角度考察了劳动者成为债务人的过程，从而将他们置于国家更广泛的农业转型之中，并将农民重新塑造为农村劳动力。然后，它探讨了工人对农村生活的看法，表明窑工的不自由与农村生活的固定性和流动性形成对比，使工人渴望回到自己的土地。文章最后强调了如何坚持小农可以被理解为一个问题，在柬埔寨的新自由主义下的穷人的工作，并借鉴了在理解这一点的劳动力代理。
: Despite the increasing preponderance of non-farm work in Cambodia, labour migrants across a range of working conditions remain linked to their rural homesteads through durable fi nancial and social arrangements. This article explores this phenomenon through the case of debt-bonded brick kiln workers in Phnom Penh, formerly smallholder farmers in villages. Drawing on the fi eld of labour geography, the article fi rst examines the process by which labourers became debt-bonded, thus situating them within the country ’ s broader agrarian transition and recasting peasants as rural labour. It then explores workers ’ perceptions of rural life, suggesting that the unfreedom of kiln work, contrasted with the fi xedness and potential for mobility in rural life, makes workers aspire to return to their land. The article ultimately highlights how the persistence of smallholder farmers can be understood as an issue of poor work under neoliberalism in Cambodia, and draws light on the agency of labour in understanding this.
影响因子：
2.5
作者：
Carswell, Grace;De Neve, Geert
通讯作者：
De Neve, Geert