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Precarity, Unreported deaths, Individuals involved in working in unethical…
Precarity
Precariousness linked to exposure to vulnerability as a result of transformations of labour and globalisation.
The increase in global south manufacturing for Global North and rest of the world induces precarity in certain populations
"Precarity, however, designates that 'politically induced condition in which certain populations suffer from failing social and economic networks of support and become differentially exposed to injury, violence and death" (Butler, 2009:25).
Globalization has taken shape, impacted workers in different parts of the world in similar ways (i.e. increased precarity)
Market fluctuations linked to labour precariousness
Labour precariousness imperils workers' health because workers are made to choose vulnerability and disempowerment - they are made complicit in the reproduction of their own precariousness
Bodies as products of profits
Precarity as a life condition of everyday suffering that is caused by contemporary capitalist development.
Precariousness of the body (Butler, 2009:14-23)
The implications of mica supply chains for miners' health and wellbeing (Occupational risk)
Mica pneumonconiosis
Silicosis
Deaths in mica mines
Precarious employment as a social determinant of health
Occupational injury
Useful literature:
Prentice, R. & Trueba, M. L. (2018) Precarious Bodies: Occupational Risk Assemblages in Bolivia and Trinidad.
Global Labour Journal.
9(1).
Obituary functions and lack of reported deaths in mica mines in which links to discourse of 'dehumanization' - it is not just that death is poorly marked, but that it is unmarkable (Butler, 2004:35-6).
Neoliberal enclaves of resource extraction as spaces dominated by capitalist abstraction.
Neoliberal restructuring for global capital expansion
The destruction of forest in Jharkhand for the mining industry
Displacement or subjection (in joining mica mining industry) of communities the area
Informal economy :
Informal economy shadows the notion of precarity.
"Critics argued that the notion of 'informal economy' did not recognise its 'essentially dependent and involuntary nature'" (Han, 2018).
Informal economy is "universal"
Global North interaction with the Global South in supply chains and production can be heavily ingrained in the informal economy - illegal mica mines helping to supply sheet mica or ground mica in electronic, cosmetic and paint products used globally.
"A development discourse in relation to informal, which is again equated not just with poverty but with poverty in the Global South" (Han, 2018)
Relationship to criminality
The use of illegal mica mines to supply brands
Useful Literature:
Rogan, M., Roever, S., Chen, M. A. & Carre, F. (2017) Informal employment in Global South: Globalization, Production Relations and "Precarity".
Structural power in global commodity markets
Galtung, J. (1969) Structural Violence theory
Unreported deaths
Dehumanization
Individuals involved in working in unethical mica mining jobs, lack the choice and flexibility which results in their dependency on these supply chains, despite exploitation.
Violence attributed to capitalist abstraction
Forest Conservation Act 1980