Work and Livelihoods: History, Ethnography and Models in Times of Crisis

ISBN-13: 9781138612860 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 224 str.

Susana Narotzky; Victoria Goddard

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Work, Livelihoods and Value in Times of Economic Crisis  Victoria Goddard and Susana Narotzky  2. The Saturn Automobile Corporation and the Long Dispossession of U.S. Autoworkers  Sharryn Kasmir  3. Post-Fordist Work Organization and Daily Life from a Gender Perspective: The Case of FIAT-SATA in Melfi  Fulvia D’Aloisio  4. Value and "Worthlessness" in Electrical Manufacturing: Class, Time, and Location in the Critical Junctions Approach  Don Kalb  5. Post-Industrial Landscapes and Memories: The Silesian Case  Kazimiera Wódz and Monika Gnieciak  6. Learning How to Work and Struggle Through the Generations at SOMISA-SIDERAR: A Public Steel Plant Turned Private  Patricia Vargas and Laura Perelman  7. Work and Social Reproduction in the Shipbuilding Industry of Piraeus  Manos Spyridakis  8. Getting By Beyond Work, or the Intertwining of Production and Reproduction Among Heavy Industry Workers and Their Families in Ferrol, Spain  Irene Sabaté Muriel  9. Disruptions and Continuities in Rethinking Volta Redonda, CSN and Its Workers in Time  Gonzalo Díaz Crovetto  10. Workers and Populism in Slovakia: Workers, History and Continuity in the Slovakian Steel Industry  Juraj Buzalka and Michaela Ferencová  11. Profession, Masculinity, and Identity: Biographical Crisis of British and German Steelworkers in Comparison  Vera Trappmann  12. From Factory Work to Cottage Industry: Consequences of Deindustrialization for Local and Domestic Economies  Frances Pine  13. Final Comments  Lydia Morris

O autorze

Victoria Goddard is Senior Lecturer and National Teaching Fellow at the Anthropology Department at Goldsmiths. Susana Narotzky is professor of Social Anthropology at the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.