Industrial labor : precarity, class, and the neoliberal subject /: precarity, class, and the neoliberal subject. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Chris Hann and Jonathan Parry.
• Editors: Hann, C. M, 1953-; Parry, Jonathan P
• Contents: 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
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 331.11; Working class; Labor movement; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781785336799; 1785336797
• Related ISBNs: 9781785336782; 1785336797
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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