Work and Livelihoods : History, Ethnography and Models in Times of Crisis / edited by Susana Narotzky and Victoria Goddard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Narotzky, Susana, editor.

Goddard, Victoria A., editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in anthropology ; 35.

Routledge studies in anthropology ; 35

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Employment (Economic theory)--Social aspects.

Employment (Economic theory).

Industrial sociology--Case studies.

Industrial sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 223 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Work and Livelihoods

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis Group, 2017.

Summary:

"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."-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.