Beyond the Wage: Ordinary Work in Diverse Economies

ISBN-13: 9781529208931 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 314 str.

William Monteith; Dora-Olivia Vicol

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Introduction: Work Beyond the Wage ~ William Monteith, Dora-Olivia Vicol and Philippa Williams Part One: RUPTURES Chapter 1., "Shit Wages" and Side Hustles: Ordinary Working Lives in Nairobi, London and Berlin ~ Tatiana Thieme Chapter 2., The Work of Looking for Work: Surviving Without a Wage in Austerity Britain ~ Sam Strong Chapter 3., Seeking Attachment in the Fissured Workplace: External Workers in the United States ~ Claudia Strauss Part Two: RESIGNATIONS Chapter 4., Wilful Resignations: Women, Labour and Life in Urban India ~ Asiya Islam Chapter 5., ‘Be Your Own Boss’: Entrepreneurial Dreams on the Urban Margins of South Africa ~ Hannah Dawson Chapter 6., Work Outside the Hamster’s Cage: Precarity and the Pursuit of a Life Worth Living in Catalonia ~ Vinzenz Bäumer Escobar Chapter 7., Choosing to be Unfree? The Aspirations and Constraints of Debt-bonded Brick Workers in Cambodia ~ Nithya Natarajan, Katherine Brickell, and Laurie Parsons Part Three: STRUGGLES Chapter 8., “Earning Money as the Wheels Turn Around”: Cycle-rickshaw Drivers and Wageless Work in Dhaka ~ Annemiek Prins Chapter 9., Going Gojek, or Staying Ojek? Competing Visions of Work and Economy in Jakarta’s Motorbike Taxi Industry ~ Mechthild von Vacano Chapter 10., "I Voted Bolsonaro for President": Street Vending and the Crisis of Labour Representation in Belo Horizonte, Brazil ~ Mara Nogueira Part Four: POSSIBILITIES Chapter 11., Extraordinary: Crisis, Charity and Care in London’s World without Work ~ Dora-Olivia Vicol Chapter 12., Defending the Wage: Visions of Work and Distribution in Namibia ~ E. Fouksman