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Journal of Contemporary Asia Volume 49, 2019 - Issue 4: Precarious Work, Precarious Lives: The Nature and Experience of Precarity in Asia
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Precarious Work and its Complicit Network: Migrant Labour in Singapore

Chuanfei ChinDepartment of Philosophy, National University of Singapore, SingaporeCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 528-551 | Published online: 16 Feb 2019

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