Abstract

98 Book Reviews STEPHEN CAMPBELL New York, Cornell University Press, ILR Press, 2018 Anthropological theorising of migration and labour relations have made important headways in recent years, ranging from ethnographies of labour migration infra- structure, intermediaries in migration, and migration-governance’s spatio-political significance (special economic zones, borders). Building on this body of work, David Campbell’s Capitalism Disrupted examines labour flexibilization in Mae- Sot, one of Thailand’s export-oriented border zones. The book interrogates the spatial production of precarious labour and Thailand’s economic dependence on migrants. Capitalism Disrupted argues that ‘the Mae Sot industrial zone, as a spatialized regulatory arrangement, has shaped and made possible certain forms of class struggle—the effects of which have disrupted and transformed the site’sborder capitalism’ (11). Campbell insists on an ethnographic approach in grasping regu- larity arrangements which must be understood as ‘a dynamic social space—apol- itically charged space—whose movement is born of the site’s internal contradictions’ (11). Chapter 1, Producing the Border, examines Mae Sot as a zone of labour precarity, which must be understood within a historical context of cross-border tensions between Thailand and Myanmar. Bordering a conflict zone (notably between the Myanmar state and the Karen National Union), Mae Sot has become a significant