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The Laziness Myth : Narratives of Work and the Good Life in South Africa /
"When people cannot find good work, can they still find good lives? By investigating this question in the context of South Africa, where only 43 percent of adults are employed, Christine Jeske challenges readers to examine their own assumptions about how work and the good life do or do not coin...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca [New York] :
ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press,
2020.
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Laziness Myth : |b Narratives of Work and the Good Life in South Africa / |c Christine Jeske. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a "We want to live a good life" : Introduction -- "They don't want to work": The Laziness Myth -- "You can't understand it" : Employers' Perspectives of the Unemployed -- "I need to respect that person and that person needs to respect me" : The Respect Narrative -- "Hustling is when you try to make a good life" : The Hustling Narrative -- "I'm just a laborer" : The Laborer Narrative -- "I have a good story" : Possibilities -- "Despite the contradictions" : Closing Thoughts. | |
| 520 | |a "When people cannot find good work, can they still find good lives? By investigating this question in the context of South Africa, where only 43 percent of adults are employed, Christine Jeske challenges readers to examine their own assumptions about how work and the good life do or do not coincide"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
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