Debt collection as labour discipline: the work of finance in a Myanmar squatter settlement
Debt collection as labour discipline: the work of finance in a Myanmar squatter settlement
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作为劳动纪律的债务追收：缅甸棚户区的财务工作
作者：
S. Campbell
对全球南方发展的批判性研究已经引起了人们对现有现代化项目未能兑现充分就业的承诺的关注。尽管正规就业出现短缺，但自世纪末以来，随着金融市场的大规模扩张，非规范性劳动形式在全球范围内激增。在本文中，我将这些多重趋势视为相互关联的现象，探讨金融在个人在正式就业之外劳动的价值提取中的作用。简而言之，这一论点是，多重债务关系促进了从非正规经济中的非规范形式的资本主义劳动中有效地提取价值。这一论点与将非正式劳动视为非资本主义的立场形成鲜明对比，或者将这种劳动视为处于剥削的阶级关系之外。人种学，我从事这些问题，通过研究位于缅甸前首都仰光郊区的工业区的棚户区居民之间的异质生计。
Critical studies of development in the global South have called attention to the failure of existing modernisa-tion projects to deliver on promises of full employment in well‐remunerated wage labour. Despite this short-fall in formal employment, non‐normative labour forms have proliferated globally, alongside mass expansion of financial markets since the late 20th century. In the present article, I take up these multiple trends as inter-related phenomena, inquiring into the work of finance in the extraction of value where individuals labour outside of formal employment. The argument, in brief, is that manifold debt relations have facilitated an effective extraction of value from non‐normative forms of capitalist labour in the informal economy. This argument contrasts with positions that see informal labour as non‐capitalist, or posit such labour as lying outside class relations of exploitation. Ethnographically, I engage these issues through a study of heterogeneous livelihoods among residents of a squatter settlement located in an industrial zone on the outskirts of Myanmar’s former capital, Yangon.
DOI：
10.14318/hau7.3.016
发表时间：
2017
期刊：
Journal of Ethnographic Theory
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作者：
James D
通讯作者：
James D