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Work and Livelihoods

History, Ethnography and Models in Times of Crisis
Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology
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Winner of the Society for the Anthropology of Work book prize 2017, this volume offers a global collection of ethnographic case studies examining the transformation of work and livelihoods. It explores how industrial restructuring, financial crises, and rising unemployment influence social processes worldwide. The book highlights how changes in the perception and value of work impact domestic life, community structures, and the conditions faced by workers and their families.
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Winner of the Society for the Anthropology of Work book prize 2017.

Work and Livelihoods 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 reorganisation and re-signification of work, notably shifts in the perception and valorisation of work, affect domestic and community arrangements and shape the conditions of life of workers and their families.

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    Winner of the Society for the Anthropology of Work book prize 2017. Work and Livelihoods 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...
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ISBN: 9781138612860

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 July 2018

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 1 Line drawings, black and white; 5 Halftones, black and white; 6 Illustrations, black and white

Contributors:

  • Edited by Susana Narotzky
  • Edited by Victoria Goddard

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 349g

Pages: 224

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

About the Author

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.

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