Anthropologies Of Unemployment

Author : Jong Bum Kwon,Carrie M. Lane
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501706684

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Anthropologies of Unemployment by Jong Bum Kwon,Carrie M. Lane Pdf

Anthropologies of Unemployment offers accessible, theoretically innovative, and ethnographically rich examinations of unemployment in rural and urban regions across North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. The diversity of case studies demonstrates that unemployment is a pressing global phenomenon that sheds light on the uneven consequences of free-market ideologies and policies. Economic, social, and cultural marginalization is common in the lives of the unemployed, but their experience and interpretation are shaped by local and national cultural particularities. In exploring those differences, the contributors to this volume employ recent theoretical innovations and engage with some of the more salient topics in contemporary anthropology, such as globalization, migration, youth cultures, bureaucracy, class, gender, and race. Taken together, the chapters reveal that there is something new about unemployment today. It is not a temporary occurrence, but a chronic condition. In adjusting to persistent, longstanding unemployment, people and groups create new understandings of unemployment as well as of work and employment; they improvise new forms of sociality, morality, and personhood. Ethnographic studies such as those found in Anthropologies of Unemployment are crucial if we are to understand the broader forms, meanings, and significance of pervasive economic insecurity and discover the emergence of new social and cultural possibilities.

Author : Manos Spyridakis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317025429

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The Liminal Worker by Manos Spyridakis Pdf

The Liminal Worker examines the experience of work, employment, employment insecurity and precariousness in a context of high unemployment and welfare state crisis in modern Greece. A theoretically-informed, anthropological exploration of the notion of work in contemporary western society and its relation to processes of political decision making, this book challenges the mainstream conception of work as an economic or purely productive activity, presenting a comparative analysis of work as a social phenomenon. Drawing on original empirical research, it explores the key themes of the transformation, experience, meaning and narrative of work and its relation to attendant social policies. A unique examination of the complicated experience of work and labour relations within power systems, institutions and organisations, as well as the reactions and survival strategies of ordinary actors facing precariousness in their daily existence, The Liminal Worker elaborates upon the notion of the anthropology of work and investigates the connection between ethnographic data (and its critical analysis) and the formation of policy. As such, it will be of interest to anthropologists, sociologists, policy makers and geographers concerned with questions of work, labour relations and policy formation.

Author : Susana Narotzky,Victoria Goddard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317602439

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Work and Livelihoods by Susana Narotzky,Victoria Goddard Pdf

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.

Author : Dimitris Dalakoglou,Georgios Agelopoulos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315299013

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Critical Times in Greece by Dimitris Dalakoglou,Georgios Agelopoulos Pdf

This volume brings together new anthropological research on the Greek crisis. With a number of contributions from academics based in Greece, the book addresses a number of key issues such as the refugee crisis, far-right extremism and the psychological impact of increased poverty and unemployment. It provides much needed ethnographic contributions and critical anthropological perspectives at a key moment in Greece’s history, and will be of great interest to researchers interested in the social, political and economic developments in southern Europe. It is the first collection to explore the impact of this period of radical social change on anthropological understandings of Greece.

Author : Leo Howe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1990-10-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521382394

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Being Unemployed in Northern Ireland by Leo Howe Pdf

This is a major ethnography of unemployment and the first community-based book on contemporary unemployment in the United Kingdom.

Author : Manos Spyridakis
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing Company
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1409428230

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The Liminal Worker by Manos Spyridakis Pdf

The Liminal Worker examines the experience of work, employment, employment insecurity and precariousness in a context of high unemployment and welfare state crisis in modern Greece. A theoretically-informed, anthropological exploration of the notion of work in contemporary western society and its relation to processes of political decision making, this book challenges the mainstream conception of work as an economic or purely productive activity, presenting a comparative analysis of work as a social phenomenon. Drawing on original empirical research, it explores the key themes of the transformation, experience, meaning and narrative of work and its relation to attendant social policies.

Author : Jie Yang
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780801456176

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Unknotting the Heart by Jie Yang Pdf

Since the mid-1990s, as China has downsized and privatized its state-owned enterprises, severe unemployment has created a new class of urban poor and widespread social and psychological disorders. In Unknotting the Heart, Jie Yang examines this understudied group of workers and their experiences of being laid off, "counseled," and then reoriented to the market economy. Using fieldwork from reemployment programs, community psychosocial work, and psychotherapy training sessions in Beijing between 2002 and 2013, Yang highlights the role of psychology in state-led interventions to alleviate the effects of mass unemployment. She pays particular attention to those programs that train laid-off workers in basic psychology and then reemploy them as informal "counselors" in their capacity as housemaids and taxi drivers. These laid-off workers are filling a niche market created by both economic restructuring and the shortage of professional counselors in China, helping the government to defuse intensified class tension and present itself as a nurturing and kindly power. In reality, Yang argues, this process creates both new political complicity and new conflicts, often along gender lines. Women are forced to use the moral virtues and work ethics valued under the former socialist system, as well as their experiences of overcoming depression and suffering, as resources for their new psychological care work. Yang focuses on how the emotions, potentials, and "hearts" of these women have become sites of regulation, market expansion, and political imagination.

Author : Susan Wright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134882816

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The Anthropology of Organizations by Susan Wright Pdf

This book presents and analyses the latest anthropological work on the development and management of organizations, examining practical problems which anthropology can help to solve.

Author : Neil Turner
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783656339199

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Unemployment and Poverty in Brazil by Neil Turner Pdf

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2012 in the subject Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology, grade: none, , language: English, abstract: Brazil has been struggling with the challenges of unemployment, job inequality, insufficient income from labor and poverty for the past three decades. Although the 1990s and early 2000s showed some economic recovery, raising the expectations that living conditions would be better, conditions have improved very slowly and in some areas worsened. This paper seeks to present an overview of labor market performance in Brazil, how inequality interacts with insufficient income and more specifically its impact and relationship to poverty. It reviews policies and initiatives within a socio-economic context undertaken to address these concerns and the distributional impact of these issues. This paper will also provide analysis of labor trends relative to the challenges of working Brazilian families, issues related to the deterioration of employment conditions, and suggest improvements relative to Brazil’s social, economic and cultural transformation.

Author : John Clammer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1987-07-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349187331

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Beyond the New Economic Anthropology by John Clammer Pdf

Author : Gaya Pandey
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Applied anthropology
ISBN : 8180695700

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Developmental Anthropology by Gaya Pandey Pdf

Author : Gregory Pappas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0608200948

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The Magic City by Gregory Pappas Pdf

Author : Sherine Hafez,Susan Slyomovics
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253007612

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Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa by Sherine Hafez,Susan Slyomovics Pdf

This volume combines ethnographic accounts of fieldwork with overviews of recent anthropological literature about the region on topics such as Islam, gender, youth, and new media. It addresses contemporary debates about modernity, nation building, and the link between the ideology of power and the production of knowledge. Contributors include established and emerging scholars known for the depth and quality of their ethnographic writing and for their interventions in current theory.

Author : Cris Shore,Susan Wright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134827022

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Anthropology of Policy by Cris Shore,Susan Wright Pdf

Arguing that policy has become an increasingly central concept and instrument in the organisation of contemporary societies and that it now impinges on all areas of life so that it is virtually impossible to ignore or escape its influence, this book argues that the study of policy leads straight into issues at the heart of anthropology.

Author : Peter D. Little
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789902716

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Advanced Introduction to Economic Anthropology by Peter D. Little Pdf

Expertly navigating the interdisciplinary field of economic anthropology, Peter D. Little illustrates how an anthropological perspective can deepen understandings of customary and global markets; different types of money; diversified livelihoods of the poor; gendered and racialized labor; climate change and other global issues. By questioning common dichotomies, such as the informal versus formal sectors and customary versus modern institutions, the book uncovers those hidden connections, power relations, and economic actors and processes that underpin real economies throughout the world.