Broken Glass, Broken Class

Transformations of Work in Bulgaria

Dimitra Kofti (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-036-7 (ISBN)

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Based on a long-term study of the everyday postsocialist politics of labour in the wider context of intense socio-economic transformation in Bulgaria, this book tells the story of the flexibilization of production, the precaritization of work, shifting managerial practices, and ways in which people with different employment statuses live and work together. The ethnography starts with the rapidly moving conveyor belt of a glass factory, where a variety of global and local forces and workers’ divisions meet, and analyses how inequalities are reproduced both at the production site and back home.

Dimitra Kofti is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology at Panteion University (Athens). She has conducted research on work in Bulgaria and on labour and financialization in Greece as a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

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Notes on Translation and Transliteration

Introduction: ‘We Are Like Broken Glass’

Chapter 1. Multiple Temporalities and Shifting Ideologies in Mladost

Chapter 2. Global Inequalities in Close Proximity: Workers’ Divisions, ‘The Market’, Managers and Clients around the Conveyor Belt

Chapter 3. Homework: Gender, Household, and Intimate Relationships across and beyond the Production Line

Chapter 4. The Rigidities and Elasticities of Flexibility

Chapter 5. Smoking and Idle Chimneys: Multiple Temporalities, (in)Visible Labour and Workers’ Identifications in Dilapidating Industrial Spaces

Chapter 6. Change, Continuity and Crisis

Conclusion

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	20.07.2023
Reihe/Serie	Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Makroökonomie
ISBN-10	1-80539-036-8 / 1805390368
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-036-7 / 9781805390367
Zustand	Neuware