A collection of highly original pieces that make an important contribution to the anthropology of labor
Evaluates the prevalence of insecure and informal labor in the twenty-first century
Compares the interrelation between class, spatiality, violence and history
Utilises key cases and historical narratives
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Toward a Global Anthropology of Labor
August Carbonella and Sharryn Kasmir
Chapter 1. Fragmented Solidarity: Political Violence and Neoliberalism in Colombia
Lesley Gill
Chapter 2. Labor in Place/Capitalism in Space: The Making and Unmaking of a Local Working Class on Maine's "Paper Plantation"
August Carbonella
Chapter 3. Flexible Labor/Flexible Housing: The Rescaling of Mumbai into a Global Financial Center and the Fate of its Working Class
Judy Whitehead
Chapter 4. Structures without Soul and Immediate Struggles: Rethinking Militant Particularism in Contemporary Spain
Susana Narotzky
Chapter 5. The Saturn Automobile Plant and the Long Dispossession of US Autoworkers
Sharryn Kasmir
Chapter 6. "Worthless Poles" and Other Dispossessions: Toward an Anthropology of Labor in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe
Don Kalb
Notes on Contributors
Index
