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  • Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism: Precarity, Class, and the Neoliberal Subject

    Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism by Hann, Chris; Parry, Jonathan;

    Precarity, Class, and the Neoliberal Subject

    Series: Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy; 4;

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher Berghahn Books
    • Date of Publication 11 February 2022
    • Number of Volumes Print PDF

    • ISBN 9781800731998
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages384 pages
    • Size 229x152 mm
    • Language English
    • 236

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    Bringing together ethnographic case studies of industrial labor from different parts of the world, Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism 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.

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    Table of Contents:

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    List of Illustrations

    Preface
    Chris Hann

    Introduction: Precarity, Class, and the Neoliberal Subject
    Jonathan Parry

    Chapter 1. Varieties of Capital, Fracture of Labor: A Comparative Ethnography of Subcontracting and Labor Precarity on the Zambian Copperbelt
    Ching Kwan Lee

    Chapter 2. Miners and Their Children: The Remaking of the Soviet Working Class in Kazakhstan
    Eeva Kesküla

    Chapter 3. Work, Precarity and Resistance: Company and Contract Labor in Kazakhstan’s Former Soviet Steel Town
    Tommaso Trevisani

    Chapter 4. Regular Work in Decline, Precarious Households and Changing Solidarities in Bulgaria
    Dimitra Kofti

    Chapter 5. Precarious Labor and Precarious Livelihoods in an Indian Company Town
    Christian Strümpell

    Chapter 6. Regimes of Precarity: Buruh, Karyawan, and the Politics of Labor Identity in Indonesia
    Daromir Rudnyckyj

    Chapter 7. Between God and the State: Class, Precarity, and Cosmology on the Margins of an Egyptian Steel Town
    Dina Makram-Ebeid

    Chapter 8. The (Un-)Making of Labor: Capitalist Accelerations and Their Human Toll at a South Korean Shipyard in the Philippines
    Elisabeth Schober

    Chapter 9. Relative Precarity: Decline, Hope and the Politics of Work
    Andrew Sanchez

    Chapter 10. From Avtoritet and Autonomy to Self-exploitation in the Russian Automotive Industry
    Jeremy Morris and Sarah Hinz

    Chapter 11. Precarity, Guanxi, and the Informal Economy of Peasant Workers in Contemporary China
    I-Chieh Fang

    Chapter 12. From Dispossessed Factory Workers to “Micro-entrepreneurs”: The Precariousness of Employment in Trinidad’s Garment Sector
    Rebecca Prentice

    Chapter 13. Towards a Political Economy of Skill and Garment Work: The Case of the Tiruppur Industrial Cluster in South India
    Grace Carswell and Geert De Neve

    Chapter 14. From Casual to Permanent Work: Maoist Unionists and the Regularization of Contract Labor in the Industries of Western Nepal
    Michael Peter Hoffmann

    Afterword: Third Wave Marketization
    Michael Burawoy

    Index

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