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The Bottom Worker in East Asia: Composition and Transformation Under Neoliberal Globalization

The Bottom Worker in East Asia: Composition and Transformation Under Neoliberal Globalization

Aoki, Hideo
Ishioka, Tomonori

Paperback

Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral SociologyPoverty & Social Work

ISBN13: 9798888902455
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: Jul 9 2024
Pages: 318
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The protagonist of The Bottom Worker in East Asia: Composition and Transformation under Neoliberal Globalization is a bottom worker. Bottom workers are workers in the North and the South, who have suffered from the downward pressure of hierarchy under neoliberal globalization and have been re-stratified among themselves, from employed irregularly to self-employed and the working homeless. The existing division has become increasingly more fluid as the disparities in working conditions and wages are compressed downward. The book examines workers' entrapment at the bottom, getting off the bottom, and intersecting each other by analyzing how they work, reside in, and build lifeworlds in cities and suburbs of four East Asian countries. In this way, it draws a dynamic picture of the contemporary working class.

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