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How we struggle : a political anthropology of labour /

When it comes to labour movements, unionised industrial workers on the factory floor have only ever been part of the picture. Across so many different workplaces, sectors of the economy and geographical contexts, the question of how working people struggle in the day-to-day has no single answer. Her...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lazar, Sian (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; Las Vegas : Pluto Press, 2023.
Series:Anthropology, culture, and society.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Heavy industry and post-Fordist precarities
  • 2. Light industry: Gender, migration and strategies of resilience
  • 3. Agricultural labour: Exploitation and collective action
  • 4. Affective labour and the service sector: Work as relations
  • 5. Professional and managerial work: Producing selves and processes
  • 6. Platform labour: Digital management and fragmented collectivities
  • 7. Patchwork living
  • 8. Social reproduction labour
  • Conclusion
  • Coda: The Covid-19 pandemic and labour: Continuities and the potential for change.