ISBN:
9781782386162
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
296 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
EASA Series 25
Keywords:
General Anthropology
Abstract:
Approaching "work" as at heart a practice of exchange, this volume explores sociality in work environments marked by the kind of structural changes that have come to define contemporary "flexible" capitalism. It introduces anthropological exchange theory to a wider readership, and shows how the perspective offers new ways to enquire about the flexible capitalism's social dimensions. The essays contribute to a trans-disciplinary scholarship on contemporary economic practice and change by documenting how, across diverse settings, "gift-like" socialities proliferate, and even sustain the intensified flexible commoditization that more commonly is touted as tearing social relations apart. By interrogating a keenly debated contemporary work regime through an approach to sociality rooted in a rich and distinct anthropological legacy, the volume also makes a novel contribution to the anthropological literature on work and on exchange.
Description / Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Jens Kjaerulff -- Chapter 1. Everybody Gives: Gifts in the Global Factory -- Jamie Cross -- Chapter 2. Unveiling the Work of the Gift: Neoliberalism and the Flexible Margins of Nation-State -- Tinna Grétarsdóttir -- Chapter 3. Flexibility Frictions: Economies of Connection in Contemporary Forms of Work -- Christina Garsten -- Chapter 4. Taking Over the Gift: The Circulation and Exchange of Options, Labour and 'Lucky Money' in Alberta's Oil and Gas Industry -- Caura Wood -- Chapter 5. How to Stay Entangled in a World of Flows: Flexible Subjects and Mobile Knowledge in the New Media Industries -- Hannah Knox -- Chapter 6. The Payoff of Love and the Traffic of Favours: Reciprocity, Social Capital and the Blurring of Value Realms in Flexible Capitalism -- Susana Narotzky -- Chapter 7. Flexible Capitalism and Transactional Orders in Colonial and Postcolonial Mauritius: A Post-Occidentalist View -- Patrick Neveling -- Chapter 8. The Corrosion of Character Revisited: Rethinking Uncertainty and Flexibility -- Jens Kjaerulff -- Chapter 9. Afterword: Exchange and Corporate Forms Today -- Keir Martin -- Notes on Contributors -- Index --
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