Does Skill Make Us Human? : : Migrant Workers in 21st-Century Qatar and Beyond / / Natasha Iskander.
An in-depth look at Qatar's migrant workers and the place of skill in the language of control and powerSkill—specifically the distinction between the “skilled” and “unskilled”—is generally defined as a measure of ability and training, but Does Skill Make Us Human? shows instead that skill disti...
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Introduction -- |t Chapter 1 Regulation: How the Politics of Skill Become Law -- |t Chapter 2 Production: How Skill Makes Cities -- |t Chapter 3 Skill: How Skill Is Embodied and What It Means for the Control of Bodies -- |t Chapter 4 Protest: How Skillful Practice Becomes Resistance -- |t Chapter 5 Body: How Definitions of Skill Cause Injury -- |t Chapter 6 Earth: How the Politics of Skill Shape Responses to Climate Change -- |t Conclusion -- |t Postscript -- |t Notes -- |t Bibliography -- |t Index |
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520 | |a An in-depth look at Qatar's migrant workers and the place of skill in the language of control and powerSkill—specifically the distinction between the “skilled” and “unskilled”—is generally defined as a measure of ability and training, but Does Skill Make Us Human? shows instead that skill distinctions are used to limit freedom, narrow political rights, and even deny access to imagination and desire. Natasha Iskander takes readers into Qatar’s booming construction industry in the lead-up to the 2022 World Cup, and through her unprecedented look at the experiences of migrant workers, she reveals that skill functions as a marker of social difference powerful enough to structure all aspects of social and economic life.Through unique access to construction sites in Doha, in-depth research, and interviews, Iskander explores how migrants are recruited, trained, and used. Despite their acquisition of advanced technical skills, workers are commonly described as unskilled and disparaged as “unproductive,” “poor quality,” or simply “bodies.” She demonstrates that skill categories adjudicate personhood, creating hierarchies that shape working conditions, labor recruitment, migration policy, the design of urban spaces, and the reach of global industries. Iskander also discusses how skill distinctions define industry responses to global warming, with employers recruiting migrants from climate-damaged places at lower wages and exposing these workers to Qatar’s extreme heat. She considers how the dehumanizing politics of skill might be undone through tactical solidarity and creative practices.With implications for immigrant rights and migrant working conditions throughout the world, Does Skill Make Us Human? examines the factors that justify and amplify inequality. | ||
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588 | 0 | |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) | |
650 | 0 | |a Construction workers |x Legal status, laws, etc |z Qatar. | |
650 | 0 | |a Foreign workers |x Legal status, laws, etc |z Qatar. | |
650 | 0 | |a Foreign workers |z Qatar |x Social conditions. | |
650 | 0 | |a Skilled labor |x Political aspects |z Qatar. | |
650 | 0 | |a Skilled labor |x Social aspects |z Qatar. | |
650 | 0 | |a Unskilled labor |x Political aspects |z Qatar. | |
650 | 0 | |a Unskilled labor |x Social aspects |z Qatar. | |
650 | 7 | |a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration. |2 bisacsh | |
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653 | |a Affordance. | ||
653 | |a Availability. | ||
653 | |a Betterment. | ||
653 | |a Bodily integrity. | ||
653 | |a Citizenship. | ||
653 | |a Coercion. | ||
653 | |a Cognition. | ||
653 | |a Cognitive model. | ||
653 | |a Collective bargaining. | ||
653 | |a Competence (human resources). | ||
653 | |a Construction. | ||
653 | |a Credibility. | ||
653 | |a Design knowledge. | ||
653 | |a Developed country. | ||
653 | |a Effectiveness. | ||
653 | |a Embodied cognition. | ||
653 | |a Embodied imagination. | ||
653 | |a Employment. | ||
653 | |a Foreign worker. | ||
653 | |a Guideline. | ||
653 | |a Harry Braverman. | ||
653 | |a Human Rights Watch. | ||
653 | |a Human behavior. | ||
653 | |a Human body. | ||
653 | |a Human capital. | ||
653 | |a Human resources. | ||
653 | |a Human skin color. | ||
653 | |a Identity document. | ||
653 | |a Impressment. | ||
653 | |a Income. | ||
653 | |a Informant. | ||
653 | |a Informational interview. | ||
653 | |a Infrastructure. | ||
653 | |a Inspection. | ||
653 | |a Interdependence. | ||
653 | |a Kafala system. | ||
653 | |a Knowledge worker. | ||
653 | |a Labor camp. | ||
653 | |a Labor relations. | ||
653 | |a Laborer. | ||
653 | |a Labour power. | ||
653 | |a Measures of national income and output. | ||
653 | |a Migrant worker. | ||
653 | |a Modern history. | ||
653 | |a Motivation. | ||
653 | |a Nationality. | ||
653 | |a Obedience (human behavior). | ||
653 | |a Occupational injury. | ||
653 | |a Occupational safety and health. | ||
653 | |a On Your Behalf. | ||
653 | |a Ownership (psychology). | ||
653 | |a Partnership. | ||
653 | |a Payment. | ||
653 | |a Personhood. | ||
653 | |a Physical exercise. | ||
653 | |a Plausible deniability. | ||
653 | |a Pliers. | ||
653 | |a Police accountability. | ||
653 | |a Political status. | ||
653 | |a Politics. | ||
653 | |a Primary authority. | ||
653 | |a Productivity. | ||
653 | |a Profession. | ||
653 | |a Prospecting. | ||
653 | |a Qatar. | ||
653 | |a Quality control. | ||
653 | |a Quality management system. | ||
653 | |a Race (human categorization). | ||
653 | |a Recruitment. | ||
653 | |a Remuneration. | ||
653 | |a Repatriation (humans). | ||
653 | |a Responsiveness. | ||
653 | |a Rework (electronics). | ||
653 | |a Safety culture. | ||
653 | |a Salary. | ||
653 | |a Scaffolding. | ||
653 | |a Scholarship. | ||
653 | |a Skill. | ||
653 | |a Skilled worker. | ||
653 | |a Slavery. | ||
653 | |a Social protection. | ||
653 | |a State actor. | ||
653 | |a Statistician. | ||
653 | |a Subcontractor. | ||
653 | |a Subjectivity. | ||
653 | |a Supervisor. | ||
653 | |a Surety. | ||
653 | |a Symptom. | ||
653 | |a Tool. | ||
653 | |a Tradesman. | ||
653 | |a Understanding. | ||
653 | |a Unfree labour. | ||
653 | |a Wage. | ||
653 | |a Welder. | ||
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