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Precarious bodies and occupational health in mica workers, Mica miners…
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Mica miners bodies are disposable - cheap labour can easily be replaced due to the innate need of sustaining a livelihood in impoverished communities in the Global South
Cheap labour is bound to the manifestation of exploitation and structural violence - the whole point of cheap labour is to dehumanise workers for profits and supply chains | hence the need for them to be disposable and replaceable
Global market forces capitalise of marginalised and impoverished communities lack of choice and mobility for livelihood sources
"The conditions under which certain human lives are more vulnerable than other and thus certain human lives are more grievable than others" (Butler, 2004:30)
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'Blood money' - accepting payment for the loss of a family member
Further demonstrates that the bodies of mica miners are 'object' and not lives, that can be valued with money like other commodities