ABSTRACT
Winner of the Society for the Anthropology of Work book prize 2017
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section Section I|45 pages
Past, Present and Future
chapter 2|15 pages
Lost Generations? Unemployment, Migration and New Knowledge Regimes in Post EU Poland
chapter 3|14 pages
Credentialism and Recommendations
chapter 4|14 pages
Continuity and Disruption
section Section II|46 pages
Continuities and Discontinuities
chapter 5|16 pages
Post-Fordist Work Organization and Daily Life from a Gender Perspective
chapter 6|16 pages
Opening the Black Box of Employability
chapter 7|12 pages
Employment Precariousness and Social Reproduction in the Shipbuilding Industry of Piraeus
section Section III|33 pages
Lives of Worth
section Section IV|47 pages
The Politics of Resistance
chapter 11|15 pages
‘A Trojan Horse in Our Midst’
section |13 pages
Afterword
