03193nam 2200637 450 991079791130332120180911101951.01-78238-616-510.1515/9781782386162(CKB)3710000000576858(EBL)4351159(SSID)ssj0001602389(MiAaPQ)EBC4351159(DE-B1597)637053(DE-B1597)9781782386162(EXLCZ)99371000000057685820160205h20152015 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFlexible capitalism exchange and ambiguity at work /edited by Jens KjaerulffNew York, [New York] ;Oxford, [England] :Berghahn Books,2015.©20151 online resource (295 p.)EASA Series ;25Includes index.1-78920-073-3 1-78238-615-7 Flexible Capitalism; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Everybody Gives; 2 Unveiling the Work of the Gift; 3 Flexibility Frictions; 4 Taking Over the Gift ; 5 How to Stay Entangled in a World of Flows; 6 The Payoff of Love and the Traffic of Favours; 7 Flexible Capitalism and Transactional Orders in Colonial and Postcolonial Mauritius; 8 The Corrosion of Character Revisited; 9 Afterword ; Notes on Contributors; IndexApproaching "work" as at heart a practice of exchange, this volume explores sociality in work environments marked by the kind of structural changes that have come to define contemporary "flexible" capitalism. It introduces anthropological exchange theory to a wider readership, and shows how the perspective offers new ways to enquire about the flexible capitalism's social dimensions. The essays contribute to a trans-disciplinary scholarship on contemporary economic practice and change by documenting how, across diverse settings, "gift-like" socialities proliferate, and even sustain the intensified flexible commoditization that more commonly is touted as tearing social relations apart. By interrogating a keenly debated contemporary work regime through an approach to sociality rooted in a rich and distinct anthropological legacy, the volume also makes a novel contribution to the anthropological literature on work and on exchange.EASA series ;25.Work environmentSocial aspectsAdaptability (Psychology)Interpersonal relationsCapitalismSocial aspectsCapitalism.Economic Anthropology.Employment.Flexible Capitalism.Labor.Neoliberalism.Work environmentSocial aspects.Adaptability (Psychology)Interpersonal relations.CapitalismSocial aspects.331.2Kjaerulff JensMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910797911303321Flexible capitalism3836955UNINA