Work and Livelihoods

<p><strong>Winner of the Society for the Anthropology of Work book prize 2017</strong></p><p>This volume presents a global range of ethnographic case studies to explore the ways in which - in the context of the restructuring of industrial work the ongoing financial crisis and the surge in unemployment and precarious employment - local and global actors engage with complex social processes and devise ideological political and economic responses to them. It shows how the reorganization and re-signification of work notably shifts in the perception and valorization of work affect domestic and community arrangements and shape the conditions of life of workers and their families.</p>