Susana Narotzky

'Narotzky is particularly compelling in her discussion of the relation between the counted andunaccounted as it enters practices and ideology in the informal economy, family business and home life' Anthropology Today (RAI)Using an historical perspective, Narotzky highlights the interdependent nature of the contemporary world economy, and includes case studies of Western societies. She gives special emphasis to current issues such as the anthropology of work, the informal economy, and the cultures of industrialisation.

New Directions in Economic Anthropology

Victoria Goddard

1. Work and Livelihoods: An Introduction -- Section I. Past, Present and Future: Generations in Times of Crisis -- 2. Lost Generations? Unemployment, Migration and New Knowledge Regimes in Post EU Poland -- 3. Credentialism and Recommendations: The Bases of the Reproduction of the Metallurgical Working Class in Contemporary Argentina -- 4. Continuity and Disruption: The Experiences of Work and Employment across Three Generations of Steelworkers in Volta Redonda -- Section II. Continuities and Discontinuities -- 5. Post-Fordist Work Organization and Daily Life from a Gender Perspective: The Case of FIAT-SATA in Melfi -- 6. Opening the Black Box of Employability: Change Competence, Masculinity and Identity of Steelworkers in Germany and the UK -- 7. Employment Precariousness and Social Reproduction in the Shipbuilding Industry of Piraeus -- Section III. Lives of Worth -- 8. Regimes of Value and Worthlessness: How Two Subaltern Stories Speak -- 9. Post-industrial Landscape: Space and Place in the Personal Experiences of Residents of the Former Working-class Estate of Ksawera in Będzin -- Section IV. The Politics of Resistance -- 10. Workers and Populism in Slovakia -- 11. 'A Trojan Horse in Our Midst': The Saturn Plant and the Disorganization of Autoworkers in the US -- 12. Getting by Beyond Work, or the Intertwining of Production and Reproduction among Heavy Industry Workers and Their Families in Ferrol, Spain -- Making Difference: Concluding Comments on Work and Livelihoods.

History, Ethnography and Models in Times of Crisis

Work and Livelihoods

Winner of the Society for the Anthropology of Work book prize 2017 This volume presents a global range of ethnographic case studies to explore the ways in which - in the context of the restructuring of industrial work, the ongoing financial crisis, and the surge in unemployment and precarious employment - local and global actors engage with complex social processes and devise ideological, political, and economic responses to them. It shows how the reorganization and re-signification of work, notably shifts in the perception and valorization of work, affect domestic and community arrangements and shape the conditions of life of workers and their families.

Gavin Smith

La transformación profunda de la cotidianidad sociolaboral del siglo xx es el objeto de este libro. En él se analiza, a través de la actividad laboral y de las relaciones sociales de producción, el paso de la supeditación del jornalero agrícola a la ansiada independencia del trabajador industrial, envuelto este último ahora en actividades informales dispersas hechas en sus casas y en pequeñas empresas. En el volumen se llega a percibir que los caminos por los que trascurre la historia del capitalismo están muy alejados de la pretensión de establecer un único recorrido estandarizado. La proto y la microhistoria nos ponen en antecedentes de las múltiples rutas que han existido y que existen para entender qué es eso del capitalismo y qué consecuencias llega a tener en diferentes lugares.

Gente, poder y espacio en la España rural

Luchas inmediatas

Annotation A study of regional development in Spain in the present period of globalization and political, economic, and cultural changes created by the world economy.

People, Power, and Place in Rural Spain

Immediate Struggles

Throughout history and in every geographical location, the rise and fall of industry, which impact the fate of large populations, are tied to the development and cultural entanglement of particular models that are articulated with political power. Models are understood as knowledge devices – expert, theoretical, practical and commonsense – that are embedded in cultural and social environments and designed through struggles at various scales. This book results from the collaboration of an interdisciplinary team bringing together specialists in anthropology, geography, sociology, economics, political science, mathematics and engineering around the theme of ‘Models and their Effects on Development Paths’. Based on empirical research conducted on the heavy industries, Industry and Work in Contemporary Capitalism addresses how models that inform the organization of work and production and are created by powerful actors may diverge from, overlap with, or contradict the models articulated by less powerful actors on the ground, and how they are connected across material and cultural spaces. Careful observation of industrial work and production as they unfold in and across specific localities and affects people’s livelihoods is complemented by analysis of how models circulate, through which channels of power, which institutional entities, which political connections. This volume explores an extensive theoretical terrain and a number of empirical cases that show, from different perspectives, how ideas about the economy, about work and industry, materialize in specific practices and interventions that affect people’s livelihoods.

Susana Narotzky

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