Nov 25, 2020
Millions of Burmese workers in Thailand are routinely underpaid,
overworked and predated upon by a coercive police force. What is
the labour regime under which these workers try to earn their
livelihoods and how can we better understand the challenges they
face? Dr Stephen Campbell, Assistant Professor in the School of
Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
discusses his stimulating book Border Capitalism, Disrupted:
Precarity and Struggle in a Southeast Asian Industrial
Zone.