Blood and Fire
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Political and Economic Anthropology
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- ISBN 9781782383635
- Weight: 581g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Aug 2014
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Based on long-term fieldwork, six vivid ethnographies from Colombia, India, Poland, Spain and the southern and northern U.S. address the dwindling importance of labor throughout the world. The contributors to this volume highlight the growing disconnect between labor struggles and the advancement of the greater common good, a phenomenon that has grown since the 1980s. The collection illustrates the defeat and unmaking of particular working classes, and it develops a comparative perspective on the uneven consequences of and reactions to this worldwide project. In Blood and Fire charts a course within global anthropology to address the widespread precariousness and the prevalence of insecure and informal labor in the twenty-first century.
Sharryn Kasmir is Professor of Anthropology at Hofstra University. She is the author of The "Myth" of Mondragon: Cooperatives, Politics, and Working Class Life in a Basque Town (State University of New York Press) and other works on the anthropology of labor. August Carbonella is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Memorial University, Newfoundland. He has published widely on the historical memory of the Viet Nam War, and on problems of structural violence, class, race, and citizenship in North America.
