{"product_id":"industrial-labor-on-the-margins-of-capitalism-precarity-class-and-the-neoliberal-subject-9781785336782","title":"Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tBringing together ethnographic case studies of industrial labor from different parts of the world, \u003cem\u003eIndustrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“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.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Journal of Anthropological Research\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“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.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• John Harriss\u003c\/strong\u003e, London School of Economics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePreface\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eChris Hann\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e Precarity, Class, and the Neoliberal Subject\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJonathan Parry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Varieties of Capital, Fracture of Labor: A Comparative Ethnography of Subcontracting and Labor Precarity on the Zambian Copperbelt\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eChing Kwan Lee\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Miners and Their Children: The Remaking of the Soviet Working Class in Kazakhstan\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eEeva Kesküla\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Work, Precarity and Resistance: Company and Contract Labor in Kazakhstan’s Former Soviet Steel Town\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eTommaso Trevisani\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4. \u003c\/strong\u003eRegular Work in Decline, Precarious Households and Changing Solidarities in Bulgaria\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDimitra Kofti\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Precarious Labor and Precarious Livelihoods in an Indian Company Town\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eChristian Strümpell\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Regimes of Precarity: \u003cem\u003eBuruh\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eKaryawan\u003c\/em\u003e, and the Politics of Labor Identity in Indonesia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDaromir Rudnyckyj\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7. \u003c\/strong\u003eBetween God and the State: Class, Precarity, and Cosmology on the Margins of an Egyptian Steel Town\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDina Makram-Ebeid\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe (Un-)Making of Labor: Capitalist Accelerations and Their Human Toll at a South Korean Shipyard in the Philippines\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eElisabeth Schober\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9. \u003c\/strong\u003eRelative Precarity: Decline, Hope and the Politics of Work\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAndrew Sanchez\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10. \u003c\/strong\u003eFrom \u003cem\u003eAvtoritet\u003c\/em\u003e and Autonomy to Self-exploitation in the Russian Automotive Industry\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJeremy Morris and Sarah Hinz\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11. \u003c\/strong\u003ePrecarity, \u003cem\u003eGuanxi\u003c\/em\u003e, and the Informal Economy of Peasant Workers in Contemporary China\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eI-Chieh Fang\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12. \u003c\/strong\u003eFrom Dispossessed Factory Workers to “Micro-entrepreneurs”: The Precariousness of Employment in Trinidad’s Garment Sector\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRebecca Prentice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 13. \u003c\/strong\u003eTowards a Political Economy of Skill and Garment Work: The Case of the Tiruppur Industrial Cluster in South India\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eGrace Carswell and Geert De Neve\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 14. \u003c\/strong\u003eFrom Casual to Permanent Work: Maoist Unionists and the Regularization of Contract Labor in the Industries of Western Nepal\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMichael Peter Hoffmann\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eAfterword:\u003c\/strong\u003e Third Wave Marketization\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMichael Burawoy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default 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