Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism
Precarity, Class, and the Neoliberal Subject
Chris Hann editor Jonathan Parry editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Berghahn Books
Published:11th Feb '22
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Bringing together ethnographic case studies of industrial labor from different parts of the world, Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism explores the increasing casualization of workforces and the weakening power of organized labor. This division owes much to state policies and is reflected in local understandings of class. By exploring this relationship, these essays question the claim that neoliberal ideology has become the new ‘commonsense’ of our times and suggest various propositions about the conditions that create employment regimes based on flexible labor.
“This collection of articles by industrial anthropologists does a magnificent job of describing the nature of work in the neoliberal era. What particularly stands out is the ethnographic descriptions of work often ignored by anthropology, such as Ching Kwan Lee’s vivid descriptions of the hellish mines in which Zambian workers toil.”• Journal of Anthropological Research
“This well-written, carefully integrated volume, edited by two of the more outstanding British social anthropologists of their generation, offers a valuable contribution to the field.”• John Harriss, London School of Economics
ISBN: 9781800731998
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384 pages