Classes Of Labour

Author : Jonathan Parry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351362849

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Classes of Labour by Jonathan Parry Pdf

Classes of Labour: Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town is a classic in the social sciences. The rigour and richness of the ethnographic data of this book and its analysis is matched only by its literary style. This magnum opus of 732 pages, an outcome of fieldwork covering twenty-one years, complete with diagrams and photographs, reads like an epic novel, difficult to put down. Professor Jonathan Parry looks at a context in which the manual workforce is divided into distinct social classes, which have a clear sense of themselves as separate and interests that are sometimes opposed. The relationship between them may even be one of exploitation; and they are associated with different lifestyles and outlooks, kinship and marriage practices, and suicide patterns. A central concern is with the intersection between class, caste, gender and regional ethnicity, with how class trumps caste in most contexts and with how classes have become increasingly structured as the ‘structuration’ of castes has declined. The wider theoretical ambition is to specify the general conditions under which the so-called ‘working class’ has any realistic prospect of unity.

Author : Jonathan Parry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9383166347

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Classes of Labour by Jonathan Parry Pdf

Author : Bryan D. Palmer
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039431106

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Working-class Experience by Bryan D. Palmer Pdf

Author : Laurajane Smith,Paul A. Shackel,Gary Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780415618106

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Heritage, Labour, and the Working Classes by Laurajane Smith,Paul A. Shackel,Gary Campbell Pdf

Heritage, Labour and the Working Classes is both a celebration and commemoration of working class culture. It contains sometimes inspiring accounts of working class communities and people telling their own stories, and weaves together examples of tangible and intangible heritage, place, history, memory, music and literature. It represents an innovative and useful resource for heritage and museum practitioners, students and academics concerned with understanding community heritage and the debate on social inclusion/exclusion. It offers new ways of understanding heritage, its values and consequences, and presents a challenge to dominant and traditional frameworks for understanding and identifying heritage and heritage making.

Author : Chris Hann,Jonathan Parry
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785336799

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Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism by Chris Hann,Jonathan Parry Pdf

Bringing together ethnographic case studies of industrial labor from different parts of the world, Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism explores the increasing casualization of workforces and the weakening power of organized labor. This division owes much to state policies and is reflected in local understandings of class. By exploring this relationship, these essays question the claim that neoliberal ideology has become the new ‘commonsense’ of our times and suggest various propositions about the conditions that create employment regimes based on flexible labor.

Author : Paul E. Willis
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0231053576

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Learning to Labor by Paul E. Willis Pdf

Claims the rebellion of poor and working class children against school authority prepares them for working class jobs.

Author : John Urry,Nicholas Abercrombie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317652205

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Capital, Labour and the Middle Classes (RLE Social Theory) by John Urry,Nicholas Abercrombie Pdf

Most recent sociological work on the theory of class is based on a distinction between Weberian and Marxist approaches. For the first part of this volume, the authors use this distinction to review the literature on the middle class, concentrating particularly on the traditions of Marxist theory and of the more empirical work inspired by Max Weber. They show, however, that this distinction is of limited utility in reconstructing a theory of the middle class.

Author : Andreas Bieler,Ingemar Lindberg,Devan Pillay
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131648300

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Labour and the Challenges of Globalization by Andreas Bieler,Ingemar Lindberg,Devan Pillay Pdf

This book critically examines the responses of the working classes of the world to the challenges posed by the neoliberal restructuring of the global economy. Neoliberal globalisation, the book argues, has created new forms of polarisation in the world. A renewal of working class internationalism must address the situation of both the more privileged segments of the working class and the more impoverished ones. The study identifies new or renewed labour responses among formalised core workers as well as those on the periphery, including street-traders, homeworkers and other 'informal sector' workers. The book contains ten country studies, including India, China, South Korea, Japan, Germany, Sweden, Canada, South Africa, Argentina and Brazil. It argues that workers and trade unions, through intensive collaboration with other social forces across the world, can challenge the logic of neoliberal globalization.

Author : Alejandro Portes,John Walton
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781483263311

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Labor, Class, and the International System by Alejandro Portes,John Walton Pdf

Labor, Class, and the International System explores the interface between the labor process, class structure, and the global requirements of accumulation as a necessary complement to the analysis of capital and dominant institutions and focus on this interaction to clarify some of the apparent contradictions and bring the general models in line with empirical reality. The book provides analysis of concepts and hypotheses derived from general theory with available empirical knowledge on each particular topic. Each chapter addresses problem areas namely, international migration; pre-capitalist modes of production and the reproduction of the urban labor force; and dominant ideologies of inequality and class structure. Sociologists, political scientists, economists, researchers, and students of international studies will find the book very interesting and insightful.

Author : Karl Marx
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781434469267

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Wage-Labour and Capital by Karl Marx Pdf

This volume contains an English translation of Karl Marx's influential essay.

Author : Barbara Harriss-White,Judith Heyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135171933

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The Comparative Political Economy of Development by Barbara Harriss-White,Judith Heyer Pdf

This book illustrates the enduring relevance and vitality of the comparative political economy of development approach promoted among others by a group of social scientists in Oxford in the 1980s and 1990s. Contributors demonstrate the viability of this approach as researchers and academics become more convinced of the inadequacies of orthodox approaches to the understanding of development. Detailed case material obtained from comparative field research in Africa and South Asia informs analyses of exploitation in agriculture; the dynamics of rural poverty; seasonality; the non farm economy; class formation; labour and unfreedom; the gendering of the labour force; small scale production and contract farming; social networks in industrial clusters; stigma and discrimination in the rural and urban economy and its politics. Reasoned policy suggestions are made and an analysis of the comparative political economy of development approach is applied to the situation of Africa and South Asia. Aptly presenting the relation between theory and empirical material in a dynamic and interactive way, the book offers meaningful and powerful explanations of what is happening in the continent of Africa and the sub-continent of South Asia today. It will be of interest to researchers in the fields of development studies, rural sociology, political economy, policy and practice of development and Indian and African studies.

Author : Laurajane Smith,Paul Shackel,Gary Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136698538

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Heritage, Labour and the Working Classes by Laurajane Smith,Paul Shackel,Gary Campbell Pdf

Heritage, Labour and the Working Classes is both a celebration and commemoration of working class culture. It contains sometimes inspiring accounts of working class communities and people telling their own stories, and weaves together examples of tangible and intangible heritage, place, history, memory, music and literature. Rather than being framed in a 'social inclusion' framework, which sees working class culture as a deficit, this book addresses the question "What is labour and working class heritage, how does it differ or stand in opposition to dominant ways of understanding heritage and history, and in what ways is it used as a contemporary resource?" It also explores how heritage is used in working class communities and by labour organizations, and considers what meanings and significance this heritage may have, while also identifying how and why communities and their heritage have been excluded. Drawing on new scholarship in heritage studies, social memory, the public history of labour, and new working class studies, this volume highlights the heritage of working people, communities and organizations. Contributions are drawn from a number of Western countries including the USA, UK, Spain, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand, and from a range of disciplines including heritage and museum studies, history, sociology, politics, archaeology and anthropology. Heritage, Labour and the Working Classes represents an innovative and useful resource for heritage and museum practitioners, students and academics concerned with understanding community heritage and the debate on social inclusion/exclusion. It offers new ways of understanding heritage, its values and consequences, and presents a challenge to dominant and traditional frameworks for understanding and identifying heritage and heritage making.

Author : Zachary Lockman
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0791416658

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Workers and Working Classes in the Middle East by Zachary Lockman Pdf

This book brings together for the first time the work of many of the leading scholars in the field of Middle East working-class history. Using historical material from nineteenth-century Syria, late Ottoman Anatolia, republican Turkey, Egypt from the late nineteenth century through the Sadat period, Iran before and after the overthrow of the Shah, and Ba`thist Iraq, the authors explore different forms and interpretations of working-class identity, action, and organization as expressed in language, culture, and behavior. In addition, they examine different narratives of labor history and the place of workers in their respective national histories. Included are articles by Feroz Ahmad, Assef Bayat, Joel Beinin, Edmund Burke III, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Eric Davis, Ellis Goldberg, Kristin Koptiuch, Zachary Lockman, Marsha Pripstein Posusney, Donald Quataert, and Sherry Vatter. The book provides not only an introduction to the "state of the field" in Middle East working-class history but also demonstrates how that field is being influenced by the new paradigms which are transforming labor history and social history more broadly worldwide. It also opens the way for fruitful comparisons among Middle Eastern countries and between the Middle East and other parts of the world.

Author : Almas Heshmati,Esfandiar Maasoumi,Guanghua Wan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789812874207

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Poverty Reduction Policies and Practices in Developing Asia by Almas Heshmati,Esfandiar Maasoumi,Guanghua Wan Pdf

This book looks at the major policy challenges facing developing Asia and how the region sustains rapid economic growth to reduce multidimensional poverty through socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable measures. Asia is facing many challenges arising from population growth, rapid urbanization, provision of services, climate change and the need to redress declining growth after the global financial crisis. This book examines poverty and related issues and aims to advance the development of new tools and measurement of multidimensional poverty and poverty reduction policy analysis. The book covers a wide range of issues, including determinants and causes of poverty and its changes; consequences and impacts of poverty on human capital formation, growth and consumption; assessment of poverty strategies and policies; the role of government, NGOs and other institutions in poverty reduction; rural-urban migration and poverty; vulnerability to poverty; breakdown of poverty into chronic and transitory components; and a comparative study on poverty issues in Asia and other regions. The book will appeal to all those interested in economic development, resources, policies and economic welfare and growth.

Author : Zak Cope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1894946685

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Divided World, Divided Class by Zak Cope Pdf

Divided World Divided Class charts the history of the 'labour aristocracy' in the capitalist world system, from its roots in colonialism to its birth and eventual maturation into a full-fledged middle class in the age of imperialism. It argues that pervasive national, racial and cultural chauvinism in the core capitalist countries is not primarily attributable to 'false class consciousness', ideological indoctrination or ignorance as much left and liberal thinking assumes. Rather, these and related forms of bigotry are concentrated expressions of the major social strata of the core capitalist nations' shared economic interest in the exploitation and repression of dependent nations. The book demonstrates not only how redistribution of income derived from super-exploitation has allowed for the amelioration of class conflict in the wealthy capitalist countries, it also shows that the exorbitant 'super-wage' paid to workers there has meant the disappearance of a domestic vehicle for socialism, an exploited working class. Rather, in its place is a deeply conservative metropolitan workforce committed to maintaining, and even extending, its privileged position through imperialism. This second edition includes new material such as data on growing inequality between the richest and poorest countries; data illustrating rising real wages in Imperial Britain; explication of the concepts of value, monopoly capital and unequal exchange and their ramifications for the global class structure; discussion of social imperialism on the left; responses to critiques surrounding the thesis of mass embourgeoisement through imperialism; as well as further information on a range of subjects.