Blood and Fire

Toward a Global Anthropology of Labor
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-748-2
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

Reihe: Dislocations

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. 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kasmir, Sharryn

Carbonella, August

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Globalisierung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Toward a Global Anthropology of Labor

August Carbonella and Sharryn Kasmir

Chapter 1. Fragmented Solidarity: Political Violence and Neoliberalism in Colombia

Lesley Gill

Chapter 2. Labor in Place/Capitalism in Space: The Making and Unmaking of a Local Working Class on Maine’s “Paper Plantation”

August Carbonella

Chapter 3. Flexible Labor/Flexible Housing: The Rescaling of Mumbai into a Global Financial Center and the Fate of its Working Class

Judy Whitehead

Chapter 4. Structures without Soul and Immediate Struggles: Rethinking Militant Particularism in Contemporary Spain

Susana Narotzky

Chapter 5. The Saturn Automobile Plant and the Long Dispossession of US Autoworkers

Sharryn Kasmir

Chapter 6. “Worthless Poles” and Other Dispossessions: Toward an Anthropology of Labor in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe

Don Kalb

Notes on Contributors

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kasmir, Sharryn
Sharryn Kasmir is Professor of Anthropology at Hofstra University. She is the author of The “Myth” of Mondragón: Cooperatives, Politics, and Working Class Life in a Basque Town (State University of New York Press) and other works on the anthropology of labor.

Carbonella, August
August Carbonella is Professor of Anthropology at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. 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.

Sharryn Kasmir is Professor of Anthropology at Hofstra University. She is the author of The “Myth” of Mondragón: Cooperatives, Politics, and Working Class Life in a Basque Town (State University of New York Press) and other works on the anthropology of labor.