Description
Winner of the Society for the Anthropology of Work book prize 2017
This volume presents a global range of ethnographic case studies to explore the ways in which - in the context of the restructuring of industrial work, the ongoing financial crisis, and the surge in unemployment and precarious employment - local and global actors engage with complex social processes and devise ideological, political, and economic responses to them. It shows how the reorganization and re-signification of work, notably shifts in the perception and valorization of work, affect domestic and community arrangements and shape the conditions of life of workers and their families.
About the Author
Victoria Goddard is Senior Lecturer and National Teaching Fellow at the Anthropology Department at Goldsmiths. Susana Narotzky is professor of Social Anthropology at the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.
Reviews
"Should anyone be interested in recent ethnographies of the working class, political ecology, anthropology of space and place, extractive industries, post-socialism and understanding precarity and informal workers' networks, this volume is indispensable." - Imola Pusoek, University of Pecs, American Anthropological Association
Book Information
ISBN 9781138612860
Author Susana Narotzky
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 349g
