Production Politics and Migrant Labour Regimes

down'.- Tactical Accommodation adn Work Pacing.- Periods of surveillance and non-surveillance.- Opportunities for slow-downs.- The roles of supervisors.- Justifying delayed completion.- Rainy Days and the Crisis of Obedience.- Supervisory Intervention and the Restoration of Obedience.- Small concessions: time-off and extra overtime hours.- Direct interventions in work pacing.- Reordering production sequence.- Seeing like a Supervisor: Why They Intervened.- The Depoliticisation of Worker Grievances.- Concluding Remarks.- 6. Intimidation, Violence and the Compulsions of Desertion.- Labour and Resistance.- Forms of Disputes.- Disputes over wage theft and harsh work regimes.- Under-employment: no jobs, no pay.- Disputes over work injuries.- No recourse in disputes.- Confronting the Boss.- Worker demands.- Disobedience.- The Coercive Power of Employers.- Threats.- Isolation and violence.- Forced repatriation.- Desertion as the Consequence of Coercion.- The Course of Desertion.- The Political Significance of Desertion.- Conclusion.- 7. Production Politics and Migrant Labour Advocacy.- Political Opportunities and Civil Society Space in Singapore.- Models of Political Participation.- The Substansive Form of Migrant Labour Advocacy in Singapore.- Advocay in autonomous sites.- NGO demands and recommendations.- The limited impact of advocacy.- Production Politics and the Impetus for Advocacy.- The 'critical mass' of NGO case-work.- Leverage.- Spill-out from the 2008 GFC.- Limitations beyond NGO strategies and civil society space.- Struggles with collective mobilisation.- Refining the Regime by Administrative Means.- Concluding Remarks.- 8. Contesting Migrant Labour Regimes: The state of migrant labour politics in Asia and the Gulf.- The contentious Politics of Chinese Construction Workers in Singapore.- The work regime of Chinese branch companies in Singapore.- Contractual disputes, contentious politics and state esponses.- Construction Worker Strikes in Dubai.- Grievances, strikes and production geography.- Subsequent state responses.- Migrant Domestic Worker Advocacy in Sending and Receiving Countries.- The nature of domestic work.- MDW activism and the limits of contention.- Concluding remarks.- 9. Conclusion