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The Liminal Worker

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The Liminal Worker book

An Ethnography of Work, Unemployment and Precariousness in Contemporary Greece

The Liminal Worker

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The Liminal Worker book

An Ethnography of Work, Unemployment and Precariousness in Contemporary Greece
ByManos Spyridakis
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2013
eBook Published 3 March 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315556031
Pages 274 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315556031
SubjectsHealth and Social Care, Social Sciences
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Spyridakis, M. (2013). The Liminal Worker. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315556031

The Liminal Worker examines the experience of work, employment, employment insecurity and precariousness in a context of high unemployment and welfare state crisis in modern Greece. A theoretically-informed, anthropological exploration of the notion of work in contemporary western society and its relation to processes of political decision making, this book challenges the mainstream conception of work as an economic or purely productive activity, presenting a comparative analysis of work as a social phenomenon. Drawing on original empirical research, it explores the key themes of the transformation, experience, meaning and narrative of work and its relation to attendant social policies. A unique examination of the complicated experience of work and labour relations within power systems, institutions and organisations, as well as the reactions and survival strategies of ordinary actors facing precariousness in their daily existence, The Liminal Worker elaborates upon the notion of the anthropology of work and investigates the connection between ethnographic data (and its critical analysis) and the formation of policy. As such, it will be of interest to anthropologists, sociologists, policy makers and geographers concerned with questions of work, labour relations and policy formation.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|10 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|38 pages

Situating Liminality

chapter 3|50 pages

Tobacco Workers

chapter 4|80 pages

Shipbuilding Workers

chapter 5|62 pages

Bank Employees

chapter |6 pages

Conclusion

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