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Beyond the wage : ordinary work in diverse economies / edited by William Monteith, Dora-Olivia Vicol and Philippa Williams.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Policy Press scholarship online.
- Policy Press scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wages--Philosophy--Cross-cultural studies.
- Wages.
- Employment (Economic theory)--Cross-cultural studies.
- Employment (Economic theory).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 302 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- This volume challenges the idea of wage employment as the global norm, comparing lived experiences of 'ordinary work' across conceptual and geographical boundaries, and opening up new possibilities for how work, income, identity and care might be woven together differently.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Beyond the Wage: Ordinary Work in Diverse Economies
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Work Beyond the Wage
- Provincializing the wage
- Conceptualizing work: three approaches
- Commodified work
- Informal work
- Precarious work
- Ordinary work: towards an alternative framework
- Structure of the book
- Ruptures
- Resignations
- Struggles
- Possibilities
- References
- Part I Ruptures
- 1 "Shit Wages" and Side Hustles: Ordinary Working Lives in Nairobi, London and Berlin
- Side hustles
- Hustling as place making in Nairobi
- Side hustling in London
- Hustling for papers in Berlin
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- 2 The Work of Looking for Work: Surviving Without a Wage in Austerity Britain
- Work and welfare at a time of austerity
- The rise and fall of wage employment in the Valleys
- Surviving without a wage in austerity Britain
- The work of looking for work
- Work without a wage
- 3 Seeking Attachment in the Fissured Workplace: External Workers in the United States
- The rise of the external worker
- Affective commitments of external workers
- Researching workplace attachments
- Seeking connection in the fissured workplace
- Taking pride in one's organization
- Being included and valued
- Care through fringe benefits
- Working for a common goal
- Forming social relationships
- Part II Resignations
- 4 Wilful Resignations: Women, Labour and Life in Urban India
- Precarity and de-feminization in the new economy of urban India
- Researching women and work in New Delhi, India
- -Resignations and respectability
- Strategies for sustaining lives
- Conclusions
- 5 "Be Your Own Boss": Entrepreneurial Dreams on the Urban Margins of South Africa
- Entrepreneurism in the 'informal economy': from condemnation to celebration?
- Life and labour in Zandspruit
- Hloni: the fixer
- Thatho: the 'connector'
- Time, obligation and flexible reciprocity
- 'Be your own boss': on the appeal of wageless life
- Note
- References
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Dec 2021).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-5292-0895-5
- 1-5292-0896-3
- 1-5292-0894-7
- OCLC:
- 1255342280
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