Industrial labor on the margins of capitalism : precarity, class, and the neoliberal subject /
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Max Planck studies in anthropology and economy ;
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Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations Preface ; Chris Hann Introduction: Precarity, Class, and the Neoliberal Subject; Jonathan Parry Chapter 1. Varieties of Capital, Fracture of Labor: A Comparative Ethnography of Subcontracting and Labor Precarity on the Zambian Copperbelt; Ching Kwan Lee Chapter 2. Miners and Their Children: The Remaking of the Soviet Working Class in Kazakhstan; Eeva Kesküla Chapter 3. Work, Precarity and Resistance: Company and Contract Labor in Kazakhstan's Former Soviet Steel Town; Tommaso Trevisani Chapter 4.
- Regular Work in Decline, Precarious Households and Changing Solidarities in Bulgaria; Dimitra Kofti Chapter 5. Precarious Labor and Precarious Livelihoods in an Indian Company Town; Christian Strümpell Chapter 6. Regimes of Precarity: Buruh, Karyawan, and the Politics of Labor Identity in Indonesia; Daromir Rudnyckyj Chapter 7. Between God and the State: Class, Precarity, and Cosmology on the Margins of an Egyptian Steel Town; Dina Makram-Ebeid Chapter 8. The (Un- )Making of Labor: Capitalist Accelerations and Their Human Toll at a South Korean Shipyard in the Philippines; Elisabeth Schober Chapter 9. Relative Precarity: Decline, Hope and the Politics of Work; Andrew Sanchez Chapter 10.
- From Avtoritet and Autonomy to Self-exploitation in the Russian Automotive Industry; Jeremy Morris and Sarah Hinz Chapter 11. Precarity, Guanxi, and the Informal Economy of Peasant Workers in Contemporary China; I-Chieh Fang Chapter 12. From Dispossessed Factory Workers to "Micro-entrepreneurs": The Precariousness of Employment in Trinidad's Garment Sector; Rebecca Prentice Chapter 13. Towards a Political Economy of Skill and Garment Work: The Case of the Tiruppur Industrial Cluster in South India; Grace Carswell and Geert De Neve Chapter 14. From Casual to Permanent Work: Maoist Unionists and the Regularization of Contract Labor in the Industries of Western Nepal; Michael Peter Hoffmann Afterword: Third Wave Marketization; Michael Burawoy Index.