Critical studies of development in the global South have called attention to the failure of existing modernisation projects to deliver on promises of full employment in well‐remunerated wage labour. Despite this shortfall in formal employment, non‐normative labour forms have proliferated globally, alongside mass expansion of financial markets since the late 20th century. In the present article, I take up these multiple trends as interrelated phenomena, inquiring into the work of finance in the extraction of value where individuals labour outside of formal employment. The argument, in brief, is that manifold debt relations have facilitated an effective extraction of value from non‐normative forms of capitalist labour in the informal economy. This argument contrasts with positions that see informal labour as non‐capitalist, or posit such labour as lying outside class relations of exploitation. Ethnographically, I engage these issues through a study of heterogeneous livelihoods among residents of a squatter settlement located in an industrial zone on the outskirts of Myanmar’s former capital, Yangon.

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讨债作为劳动纪律：缅甸屋定居点的金融工作

对全球南方发展的批判性研究呼吁人们注意现有的现代化项目未能兑现获得丰厚报酬的工资劳动的承诺。尽管正式就业人数短缺，但自20世纪末以来，随着全球金融市场的大规模扩张，非规范劳动形式在全球范围内激增。在本文中，我将这些多种趋势视为相互关联的现象，对个人在非正规就业之外劳动的价值提取过程中的金融工作进行了探讨。简而言之，论点是多重债务关系促进了非正规经济中非规范形式的资本主义劳动的有效价值提取。这种观点与将非正式劳动视为非资本主义的立场形成了鲜明的对比，或将这种劳动置于剥削的阶级关系之外。在人种学上，我通过研究位于缅甸前首都仰光郊区工业区的棚户区居民中的异质生计来解决这些问题。