{"product_id":"made-in-sheffield-an-ethnography-of-industrial-work-and-politics-9781845455514","title":"Made in Sheffield: An Ethnography of Industrial","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tIn 1900, Sheffield was the tenth largest city in the world. Cutlery “made in Sheffield” was used across the globe, and the city built armored plate for the navy in the run-up to the First World War. Today, however, Sheffield’s derelict Victorian shop floors and industrial buildings are hidden behind new leisure developments and shopping centers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBased on an extended period of research in two local steel factories, this book combines a lively, descriptive account with a wide-ranging critique of post-industrial capitalism. Its central argument is that recent government attempts to engineer Britain’s transition to a post-industrial and classless society have instead created volatile post-industrial spaces marked by informal labor, industrial sweatshops and levels of risk and deprivation that divide citizens along lines of gender, age, and class. The author discovers a link between production and reproduction, and demonstrates the centrality of kinship relations, child and female labor, and intra-household exchanges to the economic process of de-industrialization. Paradoxically, government policies have reinvigorated working-class militancy, spawned local industrial clusters and re-embedded the economy in the spatial and social structure of the neighborhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eThe tale that Mollona tells is not a pleasant one…However, it is an important tale, not least because it reminds us that anthropologists in Britain have a long history, now mostly lost to mind, of research in the heartlands of industrial capitalism. Mollona shows us, once more, that we have worthwhile things to say about the lives, work, and situation of the British working class, and through these the political-economic situation in which they find themselves. One can only hope that other anthropologists will follow his lead\u003c\/em\u003e.”  \u003cb\u003e·  JRAI\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003ci\u003e\"His narrative of the embodied lives of the factory workers and their tools brings the theory of local and transnational networks of production to life. The book's real triumph lies in this subtle layering of experiential ethnographic narratives of production and economy. The political theory underpinning the account whilst challenging is, however, illuminating for a deeper reading of Mollona's argument. The reader's 'work' is rewarded by an argument which presents a valuable contribution to the field of political and industrial ethnography in contemporary neoliberal Europe.\"\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003e·  Durham Anthropology Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tAnthropology of Labour\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tBourgeoisie and Proletarians\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tHistory and Class\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tTechnological Fetishism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tClass and Kinship\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tNotes on Fieldwork\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART I: ARTISANS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 1. Morris Ltd\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Factory as Socio-technical Space\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Shop Floor\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Market\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Formal Organization\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tInformal Organization\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tA Short Social History of the Machines\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Social Distribution of Knowledge in Morris\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tDiscussion about Value in the Break-room\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tPolitical Economy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tConclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 2. The ‘Return’ of the Informal Economy in Endcliffe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Informal Economy Debate in Anthropology\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tInformal Production\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tInformal Exchanges\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tSex Market: the Elysium Khaled’s\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tConclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 3. Working-class Homes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tWorking-class Families and Poverty\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe ‘Post-kinship’ Turn Governmental\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tFamilies and New Extended Households\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tConclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 4. Welcome to Political Limbo\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tLocal History of Working-class Politics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tFolk Models of Class\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tFrom Steel Town to Leisure Centre\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tCutlers versus Developers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tFish, Fishermen and Steelworkers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tReclaiming the Body: Sickness Benefit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tConclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003ePART II: PROLETARIANS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 5. Unsor Ltd\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Place\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Production Process and Formal Organization\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tA Normal Day at the Smelting Shop\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\t‘Every Furnace is like a Good-looking Woman’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tStories of ‘Gods’ and ‘Donkeys’ during Break-times\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Rolling Mill\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Grinding Bay\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tHealth and Safety Politics at Bay 2\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tFarewell to Manual Labour\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tConclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 6. A Divided Proletariat\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tCharlie Moody: from Working-class to Nursing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Strange Disappearance of Charlie Moody\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tBeing Italian in Worksop: Antonio Masso\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tPepperoni, Lampascioni and Vino Rosso: A Food Journey from the South of Italy to South Yorkshire\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tReturning ‘Home’\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tEpilogue\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tConclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eChapter 7. Community Unionism, Business Unionism – Two Strategies, the Same Phoenix\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tTransmutations of Labour Representation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Phoenix Flies on the ISTC Divisional Office\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe ISTC in UNSOR\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tPolitical Meeting at the ISTC or Community Unionism in Action\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe Same Phoenix, Different Trajectories\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tReorganization\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tThe AEU Factory\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tBranch Business\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tUnionism in Times of Reorganization\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tConclusion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cb\u003eConclusion\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tFarewell to the Working Class?\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tLabour and Alienation as Relational Values\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \t\tRelational Consciousness as the Basis for Class Struggle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042979938647,"sku":"9781845455514","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781845455514.jpg?v=1750956503","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/made-in-sheffield-an-ethnography-of-industrial-work-and-politics-9781845455514","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}