Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 212 Seiten, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 470 g
Reihe: Dislocations
An Ethnography of Industrial Work and Politics
Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 212 Seiten, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 470 g
Reihe: Dislocations
ISBN: 978-1-84545-551-4
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Based on an extended period of research in two local steel factories, this book combines a lively, descriptive account with a wide-ranging critique of post-industrial capitalism. Its central argument is that recent government attempts to engineer Britain’s transition to a post-industrial and classless society have instead created volatile post-industrial spaces marked by informal labor, industrial sweatshops and levels of risk and deprivation that divide citizens along lines of gender, age, and class. The author discovers a link between production and reproduction, and demonstrates the centrality of kinship relations, child and female labor, and intra-household exchanges to the economic process of de-industrialization. Paradoxically, government policies have reinvigorated working-class militancy, spawned local industrial clusters and re-embedded the economy in the spatial and social structure of the neighborhood.
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
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Anthropology of Labour
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Bourgeoisie and Proletarians
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History and Class
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Technological Fetishism
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Class and Kinship
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Notes on Fieldwork
PART I: ARTISANS
Chapter 1. Morris Ltd
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The Factory as Socio-technical Space
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The Shop Floor
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The Market
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The Formal Organization
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Informal Organization
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A Short Social History of the Machines
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The Social Distribution of Knowledge in Morris
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Discussion about Value in the Break-room
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Political Economy
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Conclusion
Chapter 2. The ‘Return’ of the Informal Economy in Endcliffe
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The Informal Economy Debate in Anthropology
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Informal Production
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Informal Exchanges
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Sex Market: the Elysium Khaled’s
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Conclusion
Chapter 3. Working-class Homes
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Working-class Families and Poverty
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The ‘Post-kinship’ Turn Governmental
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Families and New Extended Households
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Conclusion
Chapter 4. Welcome to Political Limbo
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Local History of Working-class Politics
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Folk Models of Class
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From Steel Town to Leisure Centre
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Cutlers versus Developers
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Fish, Fishermen and Steelworkers
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Reclaiming the Body: Sickness Benefit
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Conclusion
PART II: PROLETARIANS
Chapter 5. Unsor Ltd
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The Place
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The Production Process and Formal Organization
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A Normal Day at the Smelting Shop
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‘Every Furnace is like a Good-looking Woman’
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Stories of ‘Gods’ and ‘Donkeys’ during Break-times
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The Rolling Mill
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The Grinding Bay
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Health and Safety Politics at Bay 2
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Farewell to Manual Labour
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Conclusion
Chapter 6. A Divided Proletariat
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Charlie Moody: from Working-class to Nursing
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The Strange Disappearance of Charlie Moody
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Being Italian in Worksop: Antonio Masso
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Pepperoni, Lampascioni and Vino Rosso: A Food Journey from the South of Italy to South Yorkshire
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Returning ‘Home’
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Epilogue
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Conclusion
Chapter 7. Community Unionism, Business Unionism – Two Strategies, the Same Phoenix
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Transmutations of Labour Representation
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The Phoenix Flies on the ISTC Divisional Office
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The ISTC in UNSOR
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Political Meeting at the ISTC or Community Unionism in Action
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The Same Phoenix, Different Trajectories
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Reorganization
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The AEU Factory
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Branch Business
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Unionism in Times of Reorganization
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Conclusion
Conclusion
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Farewell to the Working Class?
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Labour and Alienation as Relational Values
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Relational Consciousness as the Basis for Class Struggle
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