Industrial Labour in an Unequal World : Ethnographic Perspectives on Uneven and Combined Development / Christian Strümpell and Michael Hoffmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strümpell, Christian, author.

Hoffmann, Michael, author.

Series:

Work in global and historical perspective ; Volume 20.

Work in Global and Historical Perspective Series ; Volume 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Working class.

Labor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter, [2023]

Summary:

The volume scrutinizes the fundamentally uneven character of industrial production and working class formation by bringing together anthropologists specializing on industrial labour in various locations from South America, Western and Eastern Europe, North Africa, and South Asia. Through their engagement with Leon Trotsky's concept of 'uneven and combined development' the authors unravel the complex relations that connect (and disconnect) labour in their sites of research with workers in other places and other times. As the contributions likewise reveal, the unevenness and combination inherent in industrial developments shape and are at the same time also shaped by the different politics workers in an unequal world pursue, as well as the historical experiences and future expectations of workers that inform these. With the attention the authors pay to the specificities of ethnographic detail as well as to broader regional and global developments the volume demonstrates the value of long-term ethnographic research and is of interest to a wide audience ranging from specialists in the fields of anthropology, history, sociology and development studies to students and activists.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgements

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Relevance of Trotsky's 'Uneven and Combined Development' for the Anthropology of Industrial Labour

Uneven and Combined Development in Nepal: Industrial food-factories, unions and the urban anticipation economy

Workers and Transnational Unionism in a Latin American Steel Corporation

In the Web of Movements: Floating Industrial Labour between Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan

From Militancy to Cooperation: Uneven Development and Labour Struggles within the Automotive Industry in East Germany

Eating Rocks: Multi-scale Confluence of Industrial Expansion and Mobile Labour in an Italian Alpine Extractive Industry

Uneven and Combined Development and the Politics of Labour in an Eastern Indian Coalfield: Shifts and Changes from Late Colonialism to Neoliberalism

'A Good Job But Not A Good Life': Ambiguous Realities and Uneven and Combined Development in a Tunisian Factory

The Uneven and Combined Development of Christmas Ornament Glass Production in Eastern France

Uneven and Combined Development in Bangladesh's Garment Industry: The Politics of Up-Scaling, Up-Skilling and Re-masculinizing Labour

Uneven and Combined Development and the Anthropology of Capitalism: An Afterword

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-11-131141-4