The liminal worker : an ethnography of work, unemployment and precariousness in contemporary Greece / Manos Spyridakis.

By:

Spyridakēs, Manos

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Urban anthropologyPublication details: Surrey : Ashgate, 2013Description: 266 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

9781409428237 (hardback : alk. paper)
1409428230 (hardback : alk. paper)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

331.09495

Contents:

Introduction -- Situating liminality -- Tobacco workers -- Shipbuilding workers -- Bank employees -- Epilogue.

Summary: "The Liminal Worker examines the experience of work, employment, employment insecurity and precariousness in a context of high unemployment and welfare state crisis in modern Greece. A theoretically-informed, anthropological exploration of the notion of work in contemporary western society and its relation to process of political decision making, this book challenges the mainstream conception of work as an economic or purely productive activity, presenting a comparative analysis of work as a social phenomenon. Drawing on original empirical research, it explores the key themesof the transformation, experience, meaning and narrative of work and its relation to attendant social policies. A unique examination of the complicated experience of work and labour relations within power systems, institutions and organisations, as well as the reactions and survival strategies of ordinary actors facing precariousness in their daily existence, The Liminal Worker elaborates upon the notion of the anthropology of work and investigates the connection between ethnographic data (and its critical analysis) and the formation of policy. As such, it will be of interest to anthropologists, sociologists, policy makers and geographers concerned with questions of work, labour relations and policy information."--

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds	Course reserves
Reserve - Overnight loan	CYA Library Reserve	331.09495 SPY (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00000007822		Placas, Aimee

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-261) and index.

Introduction -- Situating liminality -- Tobacco workers -- Shipbuilding workers -- Bank employees -- Epilogue.

"The Liminal Worker examines the experience of work, employment, employment insecurity and precariousness in a context of high unemployment and welfare state crisis in modern Greece. A theoretically-informed, anthropological exploration of the notion of work in contemporary western society and its relation to process of political decision making, this book challenges the mainstream conception of work as an economic or purely productive activity, presenting a comparative analysis of work as a social phenomenon. Drawing on original empirical research, it explores the key themesof the transformation, experience, meaning and narrative of work and its relation to attendant social policies.
A unique examination of the complicated experience of work and labour relations within power systems, institutions and organisations, as well as the reactions and survival strategies of ordinary actors facing precariousness in their daily existence, The Liminal Worker elaborates upon the notion of the anthropology of work and investigates the connection between ethnographic data (and its critical analysis) and the formation of policy. As such, it will be of interest to anthropologists, sociologists, policy makers and geographers concerned with questions of work, labour relations and policy information."--