ISBN:
9781800732261
Sprache:
Unbestimmte Sprache
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (304 p)
Ausgabe:
1st edition
Serie:
Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy 7
Kurzfassung:
Primarily on the basis of ethnographic case-studies from around the world, this volume links investigations of work to questions of personal and professional identity and social relations. In the era of digitalized neoliberalism, particular attention is paid to notions of freedom, both collective (in social relations) and individual (in subjective experiences). These cannot be investigated separately. Rather than juxtapose economy with ethics (or the profitable with the good), the authors uncover complex entanglements between the drudgery experienced by most people in the course of making a living and ideals of emancipated personhood
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Preface -- Chris Hann -- Introduction: Work and Ethics in Anthropology -- Chris Hann -- Chapter 1. The Meaning of “Free” Work: Service as a Gift, and Labor as a Commodity for Ni-Vanuatu Labor Migrants -- Rachel E. Smith -- Chapter 2. On the Meanings of Pleasure: Work, Ethics, and Freedom in the Hunza Valley -- Katherine J. L. Miller -- Chapter 3. Ethics of Work and Freedom in the Argentinean Andes: Value Creation and Virtuous Self-Crafting through Miniature Production -- Olivia Angé -- Chapter 4. Pursuing Pleasure at Work: Friendship and Precarity at North Indian Call Centers -- Akanksha Awal -- Chapter 5. More Than Money: Work as Self-Realization in Accra's Private Media -- Anna-Riikka Kauppinen -- Chapter 6. Capitalism, Overwork, and Polanyi's Dialectics of Freedom: Emerging Visions of Work-Life Balance in Contemporary Urban China -- Gonçalo Santos, Yichen Rao, Jack L. Xing, Jun Zhang -- Chapter 7. From Freedom to Loaf to Freedom to Work: The Late Socialist Countermovement and Liberalization from Below in Yugoslavia -- Ivan Rajković -- Chapter 8. Max Weber's Heirs? Work and Ethics among Small Business Owners in East Germany -- Sylvia Terpe -- Chapter 9. Click for Work: Rethinking Freedom through Online Work Distribution Platforms -- Ilana Gershon and Melissa Cefkin -- Chapter 10. Unicorn-Makers Working for Freedom (and Monopolies): The Work of Venture Capital Investors -- Johannes Lenhard -- Chapter 11. Individuality, Teamwork and Work Processes in a Financial Services Center in Germany -- Magdalena Dąbkowska -- Chapter 12. Writing Without Fear—or By-Lines: Freedom and Frustration among US American Ghostwriters -- Deborah A. Jones -- Afterword -- Gerd Spittler -- Index
Anmerkung:
Zielgruppe: Professional and scholarly
