Anthropologies of unemployment : new perspectives on work and its absence / edited by Jong Bum Kwon and Carrie M. Lane.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kwon, Jong Bum, 1971- editor.

Lane, Carrie M., 1974- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Unemployment--Social aspects.

Unemployment.

Unemployed--Social conditions.

Unemployed.

Economic anthropology.

Physical Description:

ix, 276 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2016.

Contents:

The limits of liminality : anthropological approaches to unemployment in the U.S. / Carrie M. Lane

The limits to quantitative thinking : engaging economics on the unemployed / David Karjanen

Occupation / Jong Bum Kwon

The rise of the precariat? : unemployment and social identity in a French outer city / John P. Murphy

Contesting unemployment : the case of the cirujas in Buenos Aires / Mariano D. Perelman

Zones of in/visibility : commodification of rural unemployment in South Carolina / Ann E. Kingsolver

Youth unemployment, progress, and shame in urban Ethiopia / Daniel Mains

Labor on the move : kinship, social networks, and precarious work among Mexican migrants / Frances Abrahamer Rothstein

Positive thinking about being out of work in Southern California during the great recession / Claudia Strauss

The unemployed cooperative : community responses to joblessness in Nicaragua / Josh Fisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-264) and index.

Contains:

Container of: Lane, Carrie M., 1974- Limits of liminality.

ISBN:

9781501704659

1501704656

9781501704666

1501704664

OCLC:

946142083