Work and Livelihoods History, Ethnography and Models in Times of Crisis

"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 pro...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Narotzky, Susana, editor (editor), Goddard, Victoria A., editor
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis Group 2017.
Series:Routledge studies in anthropology ; 35.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009745232606719
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Work and Livelihoods: An Introduction
  • Section I. Past, Present and Future: Generations in Times of Crisis
  • 2. Lost Generations? Unemployment, Migration and New Knowledge Regimes in Post EU Poland
  • 3. Credentialism and Recommendations: The Bases of the Reproduction of the Metallurgical Working Class in Contemporary Argentina
  • 4. Continuity and Disruption: The Experiences of Work and Employment across Three Generations of Steelworkers in Volta Redonda
  • Section II. Continuities and Discontinuities
  • 5. Post-Fordist Work Organization and Daily Life from a Gender Perspective: The Case of FIAT-SATA in Melfi
  • 6. Opening the Black Box of Employability: Change Competence, Masculinity and Identity of Steelworkers in Germany and the UK
  • 7. Employment Precariousness and Social Reproduction in the Shipbuilding Industry of Piraeus
  • Section III. Lives of Worth
  • 8. Regimes of Value and Worthlessness: How Two Subaltern Stories Speak
  • 9. Post-industrial Landscape: Space and Place in the Personal Experiences of Residents of the Former Working-class Estate of Ksawera in Będzin
  • Section IV. The Politics of Resistance
  • 10. Workers and Populism in Slovakia
  • 11. 'A Trojan Horse in Our Midst': The Saturn Plant and the Disorganization of Autoworkers in the US
  • 12. Getting by Beyond Work, or the Intertwining of Production and Reproduction among Heavy Industry Workers and Their Families in Ferrol, Spain
  • Making Difference: Concluding Comments on Work and Livelihoods.