‘You Don’t Know’

Precarious Methods and Life in a Workers' Hostel

Jacob A. E. Nielsen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

226 Seiten

2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-897-4 (ISBN)

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People employed at sites of precarious work such as call centres or retail warehouses often live precarious lives. Drawing on ethnographic research in a London hostel for precarious workers, the book explores the political, analytical and practical limitations of using traditional methods of trying to make sense of life in these settings. Traditional methods are rooted in practices that emerge from privileged social positions and their enactment is deeply entangled with the processes that create these conditions in the first place. This book responds to this by experimenting with ‘precarious methods’ to enable greater agency to those placed in these precarious situations.

Jacob A. E. Nielsen has worked in a variety of precarious academic and non-academic jobs. He experiments with precarious methods and writes about precarious life with all its uncertainties, interdependencies and vulnerabilities.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Prelude

Part I: Settlement

Part II: Rifts

Part III: Fragments

Postscript

References

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.3.2025
Reihe/Serie	EASA Series
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-80539-897-0 / 1805398970
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-897-4 / 9781805398974
Zustand	Neuware