Beschreibung:
"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."--
1. Work and Livelihoods: An Introduction -- Section I. Past, Present and Future: Generations in Times of Crisis -- 2. Lost Generations? Unemployment, Migration and New Knowledge Regimes in Post EU Poland -- 3. Credentialism and Recommendations: The Bases of the Reproduction of the Metallurgical Working Class in Contemporary Argentina -- 4. Continuity and Disruption: The Experiences of Work and Employment across Three Generations of Steelworkers in Volta Redonda -- Section II. Continuities and Discontinuities -- 5. Post-Fordist Work Organization and Daily Life from a Gender Perspective: The Case of FIAT-SATA in Melfi -- 6. Opening the Black Box of Employability: Change Competence, Masculinity and Identity of Steelworkers in Germany and the UK -- 7. Employment Precariousness and Social Reproduction in the Shipbuilding Industry of Piraeus -- Section III. Lives of Worth -- 8. Regimes of Value and Worthlessness: How Two Subaltern Stories Speak -- 9. Post-industrial Landscape: Space and Place in the Personal Experiences of Residents of the Former Working-class Estate of Ksawera in Będzin -- Section IV. The Politics of Resistance -- 10. Workers and Populism in Slovakia -- 11. 'A Trojan Horse in Our Midst': The Saturn Plant and the Disorganization of Autoworkers in the US -- 12. Getting by Beyond Work, or the Intertwining of Production and Reproduction among Heavy Industry Workers and Their Families in Ferrol, Spain -- Making Difference: Concluding Comments on Work and Livelihoods