Sandro Mezzadra

由V. Squire主编的《移民安全化争论：边界地带和非正规化》（Contesting the Securitization of Migration：Borderzones and Irregularity）即将于2010年由伦敦Routledge出版社出版发行。

Self Valorisation, Social Mobilities and Creative Labour: Challenges to Methods and Vocabularies

Over the past several years, great efforts have been made to integrate invention, innovation and creativity into the core of China’s economy. This has witnessed not only shifts in manufacturing and production technologies, but also in forms of labour organisation. In Shanghai specifically, a mass workforce has begun to aggregate in the creative and cultural labour sectors, including the arts, design, fashion, advertising and also software development, IT, logistics and services. As in Europe, this burgeoning workforce is one predominantly typified by a relatively low labour to wage ratio, high contact hours, flexible contracts and spatial fragmentation. It is also one deeply invested in aspirationalism.

access – to language, explore conceptual reaches, collate connotations, record resonances across multiple registers of articulation, capture aspects of the contemporary conjuncture

(Some parts in this text are duplicated and developed from the essay and research which I did on Electronic Waste for the Urban-Media Network module.)

There have been concerns and issues about workers’ health on the other end of the electronic products life-cycle chain. As there have been reports written about the poor and risky working condition that workers face in the electronic waste recycling industry, this short article is brought up to discuss who should be responsible for the health of workers who deal with electronic waste.