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  Labour recruitment practices and its class implications: comparing workers in Singapore’s segmented labour market

Ye, J. (2013). Labour recruitment practices and its class implications: comparing workers in Singapore’s segmented labour market. MMG Working Paper, (13-14).

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 Abstract: This paper contributes to the literature on labour migration by considering the class commonalities and differences as refracted through gender that are embedded within recruitment practices of different workers. Recent writings on the recruitment of labour migrants often distinguish between low-waged and middle-income workers without clearly addressing the the linkages between recruitment practices of both. By adopting a comparative framework between Bangladeshi male migrants and transnational financial professionals, I draw out the varied configurations of gender and class that are deployed in recruitment processes that contour the existing division of labour in Singapore. For both groups of workers, their access to work is conditioned, not only by technical skills, but also by their social and cultural capital as well. Through the analyses of the mesogeography of labour assembly, recruitment methods become crucial channels to the realms of economic production and social reproduction, which are intertwined. This accounts for the segmented social space that is the labour market by demonstrating that recruitment processes are themselves embedded with specific class intersections as deployed through varied gender constructions.

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 2013
 Publication Status: Issued
 Pages: 28
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Title: MMG Working Paper
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