{"id":18052,"date":"2019-07-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2019\/07\/19\/book-launch-hard-at-work-life-in-singapore\/"},"modified":"2021-02-15T15:48:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T07:48:10","slug":"book-launch-hard-at-work-life-in-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2019\/07\/19\/book-launch-hard-at-work-life-in-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Launch – Hard at Work: Life in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Title: <\/strong>Book Launch – Hard at Work: Life in Singapore\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Date:<\/strong> Friday, 1 November 2019<\/p>\n

Time:<\/strong> 6:00-8:35 pm<\/p>\n

Venue:<\/strong> The Pod, NLB<\/p>\n

Organizers:<\/strong> Singapore Research Nexus<\/p>\n

RSVP at Eventbrite.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Description<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hard at Work: Life in Singapore<\/a><\/em><\/strong>
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Gerard Sasges<\/a> & Ng Shi Wen<\/a> (Editors)
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For most of us, work is\u00a0a basic daily fact of life. But that simple fact encompasses an incredibly wide range of experiences. <\/span>Hard at Work <\/em>(2019) takes readers into the day-to-day work experiences of more than fifty working people in Singapore who hold jobs that run from the ordinary to the unusual: from ice cream vendors, baristas, police officers and funeral directors to academic ghostwriters, temple flower sellers, and Thai disco girl agents.<\/span><\/p>\n

Through first-person narratives based on detailed interviews, vividly augmented with color photographs, Hard at Work<\/em> reminds us of the everyday labor that continually goes on around us, and that every job can reveal something interesting if we just look closely enough. It shows us too the ways inequalities of status and income are felt and internalized in this highly globalized society.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Gerard Sasges<\/strong> is a historian, educator, and chronicler of everyday life. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore. His work explores the relationship between technology and processes of social, political, economic, and environmental change in Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n

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Ng Shi Wen<\/strong> is a photographer, educator, and entrepreneur. She is the founder of Photo Rikiki and has taught at the National University of Singapore and at Singapore\u2019s School of the Arts. Using words and light, she seeks to transcribe stories of people finding their way in a constantly changing city.<\/p>\n

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Programme<\/strong><\/p>\n

6:00-6:30 pm \u2013 Registration\/Refreshments\/Books available for purchase<\/p>\n

6:30-6:35 pm \u2013 Welcome Remarks by Chair, Associate Professor Teo You Yenn, Provost\u2019s Chair & Head of Sociology, NTU School of Social Sciences<\/p>\n

6:35-7:35 pm \u2013\u00a0 \u201cWork\/Life in Singapore\u201d with Gerard Sasges, Ng Shi Wen, Choo Ruizhi,\u00a0Nathene Chua, Qistina Ahmad, Samuel Devaraj, and Sutrisno Foo<\/p>\n

7:35-8:05 pm \u2013 Q and A\/Discussion, Moderated by Chair<\/p>\n

8:05-8:35 pm \u2013 Book Sale with Autograph Signing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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