Anthropologies of Unemployment : : New Perspectives on Work and Its Absence / / ed. by Carrie M. Lane, Jong Bum Kwon.
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 ph...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 3 halftones, 1 table, 1 chart |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Limits of Liminality
- 2. The Limits to Quantitative Thinking
- 3. Occupation
- 4. The Rise of the Precariat?
- 5. Contesting Unemployment
- 6. Zones of In/Visibility
- 7. Youth Unemployment, Progress, and Shame in Urban Ethiopia
- 8. Labor on the Move
- 9. Positive Thinking about Being Out of Work in Southern California after the Great Recession
- 10. The Unemployed Cooperative
- Epilogue: Rethinking the Value of Work and Unemployment
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index