%0 Journal Article
%T Unfreedom Unbound: Developing a Cumulative Approach to Understanding Unfree Labour in Singapore
%A Sallie Yea
%A Stephanie Chok
%J Work, Employment and Society
%@ 1469-8722
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0950017017738956
%X This article proposes a cumulative approach to contemporary manifestations of unfree labour based on an exploration of dynamic combinations of common elements of the phenomenon. This understanding challenges enumerative and depoliticized tendencies in current approaches to both characterizing unfree labour and identifying victims. A cumulative approach recognizes the interlocking impacts of multiple forms of compulsion and duress, which shape the choices migrant workers make when their alternatives are severely limited and agency constrained. To illustrate this approach the article draws on a case study of Bangladeshi contract migrant construction workers in Singapore
%K Construction workers
%K contract migrant workers
%K cumulative approach
%K labour exploitation
%K Singapore
%K unfree labour
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0950017017738956