The cultural value of work : livelihoods and migration in the world's economies / David Griffith, East Carolina University,

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Griffith, David, 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor--Social aspects.

Labor.

Labor--Anthropological aspects.

Foreign workers--Social conditions.

Foreign workers.

Precarious employment--Social aspects.

Precarious employment.

Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 248 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Traditional wage labor has experienced a significant decline in industrialized countries over the past few decades. The spread of temporary work, the proliferation of subcontracting arrangements, the use of artificial intelligence (AI), the shipment of manufacturing jobs overseas, and the employment of foreign contract workers are among the key factors driving this decline. The result is a rise of labor insecurity and fragmentation among increasingly diverse forms of flexible labor arrangements. This book examines this important transformation by considering the impact of foreign contract labor on temporary migrant workers in their places of employment and home communities. It assesses work as a source of value in capitalist, reproductive, domestic, and cultural economics, and argues for a new, work-centric field of economics. Rich in examples, it is a sophisticated anthropological appreciation of the many forms that work can take and what these forms mean for the creation of value in people's lives.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Jul 2022).

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781009109000 (ebook)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.