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Author Campbell, Stephen (Anthropologist), author.

Title Along the integral margin uneven development in a Myanmar squatter settlement Stephen Campbell
Published Ithaca ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press 2022
©2022

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Description 1 online resource (x, 190 pages) illustrations, map
Contents Introduction: modernity's integral margins -- A deeper history of Myanmar's "transition" -- From rural dispossession to precarious urbanization -- Squatting amid capitalism and the contradictions thereof -- Debt collection as labor discipline -- The integral informality of marginalization workers -- Unfreedoms of capitalism -- Squatter self-organization and collective struggle -- Conclusion: the margins at the heart of modernity
Summary "This book is an ethnographic study of informal housing and labor among residents of a squatter settlement on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar's former capital, based on research conducted from 2016 to 2019"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 27, 2022)
Subject Squatter settlements -- Burma -- Social conditions -- 21st century
Squatter settlements -- Burma -- Economic conditions -- 21st century
Precarious employment -- Burma
Capitalism -- Social aspects -- Burma -- History -- 21st century
HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia.
Capitalism -- Social aspects
Precarious employment
Burma
Genre/Form Ethnographies
History
Ethnographies.
Études ethnographiques.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021047792
ISBN 9781501764899
1501764896
9781501764905
150176490X