Work and Livelihoods: History, Ethnography and Models in Times of Crisis

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.