Introduction
Novelty of factory labour
Productivity as a national concern
Asian values
Cleanliness
Consciousness and control
Network of operators
Flatted factories as sites of visions
Mass Psychogenic Illness
Industrial toxicities
How to handle hysterical factory workers
Sightings
Experiences of a friend
Gross National Distress
Directions for an instrument (project description)
1983 (project description)
Ballad of the graveyard shift (project description)
Highly infectious (project description)
Interpretations of an outbreak (project description)
Let the machines sweat/sing/sleep (project description)
I dream of surplus (project description)
Shrunken desires (project description)
Dear passenger (project description)
Graveyard shift girls(project proposal)
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Oral interviews
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A Merdeka Story: The Factory Girl, 2019
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