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Uncertain Times Anthropological Approaches to Labor in a Neoliberal World / edited by E. Paul Durrenberger.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neoliberalism.
- Labor unions--Organizing.
- Labor unions.
- Organizational behavior.
- Business anthropology.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (260 pages)
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2017
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2017]
- Summary:
- "The first-ever collection of labor anthropology from around the world, Uncertain Times addresses the theory that traditional labor union organization has been co-opted by the neoliberal policies of corporate capital and become a member service rather than a driver of social movements"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Hope for labor in a neoliberal world / Paul Durrenberger
- Anthropologists, activists, and the labor movement / Emma Braden
- The gift of labor : the town, the union and the corporate state in the demise of the Swedish car industry / Staffan Löfving
- Trade unions, labor conflict and contested institutions in the Swiss construction industry / Christopher Kelley
- Union power and transnational corporations in the Argentine steel industry / Julia Soul
- Agents of change or status quo? Labor NGOs in South China / Darcy Pan
- Labor struggles in the shipbuilding industry of Piraeus / Manos Spyridakis
- The struggle for labor rights in the Maquiladoras of Northern Mexico / María Eugenia de la O
- Growers, unions, and farm laborers in Mexico's Baja California / Christian Zlolniski
- Policies, economic forces, class relations and unions in Spain's strawberry fields : globalized agriculture in Andalusia / Alicia Reigada
- Subcontracted employment and the labor movement's response in Turkey / Alpkan Birelma
- Organized labor in contemporary Israeli retail chains / Gadi Nissim
- National unions, international capital and bankworkers / Steven Payne.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781607326311
- 1607326310
- OCLC:
- 1000128725
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