How We Struggle : a political anthropology of labour / Sian Lazar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lazar, Sian, author.

Series:

Anthropology, culture, and society.

Anthropology, Culture and Society Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor movement.

Working class.

Working class--Political activity.

Quality of work life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 288 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Pluto Press, [2023]

Summary:

A comparative, ethnographic approach to the question of labour struggles and workers' political agency.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Copyright

Contents

Series Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1 Heavy Industry and Post-Fordist Precarities

2 Light Industry: Gender, Migration and Strategies of Resilience

3 Agricultural Labour: Exploitation and Collective Action

4 Affective Labour and the Service Sector: Work as Relations

5 Professional and Managerial Work: Producing Selves and Processes

6 Platform Labour: Digital Management and Fragmented Collectivities

7 Patchwork Living

8 Social Reproduction Labour

Conclusion

Coda The Covid-19 Pandemic and Labour: Continuities and the Potential for Change

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on June 1, 2023)

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Lazar, Sian How We Struggle

ISBN:

9780745347530

0745347533

9780745347547

0745347541