04495nam 22005535 450 991079863610332120190708092533.01-5017-0466-41-5017-0668-310.7591/9781501706134(CKB)3710000000884722(MiAaPQ)EBC4713548(OCoLC)960505914(MdBmJHUP)muse53829(DE-B1597)478269(OCoLC)979911501(DE-B1597)9781501706134(EXLCZ)99371000000088472220190708d2016 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierAnthropologies of Unemployment New Perspectives on Work and Its Absence /Jong Bum Kwon, Carrie M. LaneIthaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2016]©20161 online resource (286 pages) illustrations, photographs, graphs1-5017-0465-6 1-5017-0613-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Kwon, Jong Bum / Lane, Carrie M. -- 1. The Limits of Liminality / Lane, Carrie M. -- 2. The Limits to Quantitative Thinking / Karjanen, David -- 3. Occupation / Kwon, Jong Bum -- 4. The Rise of the Precariat? / Murphy, John P. -- 5. Contesting Unemployment / Perelman, Mariano D. -- 6. Zones of In/Visibility / Kingsolver, Ann E. -- 7. Youth Unemployment, Progress, and Shame in Urban Ethiopia / Mains, Daniel -- 8. Labor on the Move / Rothstein, Frances Abrahamer -- 9. Positive Thinking about Being Out of Work in Southern California after the Great Recession / Strauss, Claudia -- 10. The Unemployed Cooperative / Fisher, Josh -- Epilogue: Rethinking the Value of Work and Unemployment / Lynch, Caitrin / Mains, Daniel -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- IndexAnthropologies of Unemployment offers accessible, theoretically innovative, and ethnographically rich examinations of unemployment in rural and urban regions across North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. The diversity of case studies demonstrates that unemployment is a pressing global phenomenon that sheds light on the uneven consequences of free-market ideologies and policies. Economic, social, and cultural marginalization is common in the lives of the unemployed, but their experience and interpretation are shaped by local and national cultural particularities. In exploring those differences, the contributors to this volume employ recent theoretical innovations and engage with some of the more salient topics in contemporary anthropology, such as globalization, migration, youth cultures, bureaucracy, class, gender, and race.Taken together, the chapters reveal that there is something new about unemployment today. It is not a temporary occurrence, but a chronic condition. In adjusting to persistent, longstanding unemployment, people and groups create new understandings of unemployment as well as of work and employment; they improvise new forms of sociality, morality, and personhood. Ethnographic studies such as those found in Anthropologies of Unemployment are crucial if we are to understand the broader forms, meanings, and significance of pervasive economic insecurity and discover the emergence of new social and cultural possibilities.Contributors Josh Fisher, High Point UniversityDavid Karjanen, University of MinnesotaAnn E. Kingsolver, University of KentuckyJong Bum Kwon, Webster UniversityCarrie M. Lane, California State University, FullertonCaitrin Lynch, Olin College Daniel Mains, University of OklahomaJohn P. Murphy, Gettysburg CollegeMariano D. Perelman, University of Buenos AiresFrances Abrahamer Rothstein, Montclair State UniversityClaudia Strauss, Pitzer CollegeEconomic anthropologyUnemployedSocial conditionsUnemploymentSocial aspectsElectronic books. Economic anthropology.UnemployedSocial conditions.UnemploymentSocial aspects.331.13/7Kwon Jong Bum, Lane Carrie M., DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910798636103321Anthropologies of Unemployment3722598UNINA