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Uncertain times : anthropological approaches to labor in a neoliberal world
- Title
- Uncertain times : anthropological approaches to labor in a neoliberal world / edited by E. Paul Durrenberger.
- Publication
- Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2017]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Durrenberger, E. Paul, 1943-
- Description
- viii, 361 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "The first-ever collection of labor anthropology from around the world, Uncertain Times addresses the theory that traditional labor union organization has been co-opted by the neoliberal policies of corporate capital and become a member service rather than a driver of social movements"--Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Hope for labor in a neoliberal world / Paul Durrenberger -- Anthropologists, activists, and the labor movement / Emma Braden -- The gift of labor : the town, the union and the corporate state in the demise of the Swedish car industry / Staffan Löfving -- Trade unions, labor conflict and contested institutions in the Swiss construction industry / Christopher Kelley -- Union power and transnational corporations in the Argentine steel industry / Julia Soul -- Agents of change or status quo? Labor NGOs in South China / Darcy Pan -- Labor struggles in the shipbuilding industry of Piraeus / Manos Spyridakis -- The struggle for labor rights in the Maquiladoras of Northern Mexico / María Eugenia de la O -- Growers, unions, and farm laborers in Mexico's Baja California / Christian Zlolniski -- Policies, economic forces, class relations and unions in Spain's strawberry fields : globalized agriculture in Andalusia / Alicia Reigada -- Subcontracted employment and the labor movement's response in Turkey / Alpkan Birelma -- Organized labor in contemporary Israeli retail chains / Gadi Nissim -- National unions, international capital and bankworkers / Steven Payne.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-10578
- ISBN
- 9781607326304
- 1607326302
- 9781607326656
- 1607326655
- LCCN
- 2017001721
- OCLC
- 971333737
- Title
- Uncertain times : anthropological approaches to labor in a neoliberal world / edited by E. Paul Durrenberger.
- Publisher
- Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Durrenberger, E. Paul, 1943- editor.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-10578