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Uncertain times anthropological approaches to labor in a neoliberal world

Title
Uncertain times [electronic resource] : anthropological approaches to labor in a neoliberal world / edited by E. Paul Durrenberger.
Publication
Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2017]

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Additional Authors
Durrenberger, E. Paul, 1943-
Uniform Title
Uncertain times (Online)
Subject
  • Business anthropology
  • Organizational behavior
  • Labor unions
  • Labor unions > Organizing
  • Neoliberalism
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
Hope for labor in a neoliberal world / Paul Durrenberger -- Anthropologists, activists, and the labor movement / Emma Braden -- The gift of labor : the town, the union and the corporate state in the demise of the Swedish car industry / Staffan Löfving -- Trade unions, labor conflict and contested institutions in the Swiss construction industry / Christopher Kelley -- Union power and transnational corporations in the Argentine steel industry / Julia Soul -- Agents of change or status quo? Labor NGOs in South China / Darcy Pan -- Labor struggles in the shipbuilding industry of Piraeus / Manos Spyridakis -- The struggle for labor rights in the Maquiladoras of Northern Mexico / María Eugenia de la O -- Growers, unions, and farm laborers in Mexico's Baja California / Christian Zlolniski -- Policies, economic forces, class relations and unions in Spain's strawberry fields : globalized agriculture in Andalusia / Alicia Reigada -- Subcontracted employment and the labor movement's response in Turkey / Alpkan Birelma -- Organized labor in contemporary Israeli retail chains / Gadi Nissim -- National unions, international capital and bankworkers / Steven Payne.
LCCN
2017001721
OCLC
ssj0001839870
Title
Uncertain times [electronic resource] : anthropological approaches to labor in a neoliberal world / edited by E. Paul Durrenberger.
Imprint
Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2017]
Description
1 online resource (viii, 361 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Summary
"The first-ever collection of labor anthropology from around the world, Uncertain Times addresses the theory that traditional labor union organization has been co-opted by the neoliberal policies of corporate capital and become a member service rather than a driver of social movements"--Provided by publisher.
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Durrenberger, E. Paul, 1943-
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