How We Struggle (eBook)

A Political Anthropology of Labour

Sian Lazar (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
304 Seiten
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-4754-7 (ISBN)

Infos

A comparative, ethnographic approach to the question of labour struggles and workers' political agency'A masterful book a resource that makes anthropology matter - Andrea Muehlebach, Professor of Anthropology, University of BremenWhen it comes to labor movements, unionized 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.Here Sian Lazar offers a unique anthropological perspective on labor agency that takes in examples from across the globe, from heavy industry and agriculture to the service and informal sectors. She asks: how do people strive to improve their lives and working conditions? How are they constrained and enabled in that struggle by the nature of the work they do, and by their own positionality in local histories, cultures, and networks?How We Struggle explores worker action across the spectrum from organized trade unionism to individualized strategies of accommodation, resistance, and escape. The book marries a discussion of global political economy and Marxist feminist theories of labor with ethnographic approaches that begin from a perspective of human experience, kinship, and radical heterogeneity.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.1.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Anthropology, Culture and Society
• Reihe/Serie: Anthropology, Culture and Society
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Geld / Bank / Börse
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: Agriculture • Anthropology of Labour • Collective Action • collective politics • digital platforms • Ethnography of Labour • Global Labour Movement • global political economy • heavy industry • Informal Economy • labour agency • Labour movement • labour organisation • labour struggles • light industry • Marxist feminism • Precariat • Service Sector • social reproduction theory • Trade unions • workers in global south • Workers' struggles • workplace struggles
• ISBN-10: 0-7453-4754-1 / 0745347541
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7453-4754-7 / 9780745347547