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anthropology of labour
Author_Manos Spyridakis
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Contemporary Greek Society
Employment Precariousness
employment precarity research
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ethnographic study of Greek unemployment
Ethnographic Voices
EU's Drive
Euro Area
European Employment Strategy
EU’s Drive
Insurance Stamps
Job Deprivation
Keranis Workers
Liminal Workers
Local Informal Activities
Middle Class Downward Mobility
Organisational Power Structure
Pacem Appellant
Packaging Machine Operator
Post-industrial Welfare State
power dynamics in organisations
qualitative fieldwork methods
Sense Social Actors
Shipbuilding Activities
Shipbuilding Workers
social policy analysis
Social Reproduction
Susana Narotzky
Tobacco Factory
Tobacco Workers
Unemployment Regimes
Vulgar Economism
welfare state crisis
Product details
- ISBN 9781409428237
- Weight: 635g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 06 Nov 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 processes 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 themes of 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 formation.
Manos Spyridakis is Assistant Professor of the Social Anthropology of Labour Relations in the Department of Social and Educational Policy at the University of the Peloponnese, Greece.
