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UNINA9910808350903321 |
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Titolo |
Workers and narratives of survival in Europe : the management of precariousness at the end of the twentieth century / / edited by Angela Procoli |
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Albany, NY, : State University of New York Press, c2004 |
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ISBN |
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0-7914-8511-0 |
1-4237-3984-1 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Collana |
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SUNY series in the anthropology of work |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Structural unemployment - Europe |
Labor market - Europe |
Industries - Social aspects - Europe |
Europe Economic conditions 1945- |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Revised versions of papers presented at the fifth and sixth meetings of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), held respectively in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, in Sept. 1998 and in Krakow, Poland, in July 2000. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Identity and the Experience of Work -- The Hazards of Overemployment -- Secret Enterprise -- The Political Economy of Affects -- Liminality and the Narrative of Survival -- Manufacturing the New Man -- Passages to No-Man’s-Land -- Unemployed and Hard Workers -- Continuity or Discontinuity with the Past? -- Productivity and the Person -- Redefining Work in a Local Community in Poland -- Working in the West -- Contributors -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Workers and Narratives of Survival in Europe explores the growing problem of job uncertainty in Europe at the end of the twentieth century. The management of professional precariousness is reconsidered against the backdrop of far-reaching social, economic, and political changes in Europe in recent decades, including: the instability of the traditional family; the emergence of new forms of parenthood; globalization of the economic sphere; attempts to impose |
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