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Flexible Capitalism - Exchange and Ambiguity At Work

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Approaching "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.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

Jens Kjaerulff

Chapter 1. Everybody Gives: Gifts in the Global Factory

Jamie Cross

Chapter 2. Unveiling the Work of the Gift: Neoliberalism and the Flexible Margins of Nation-State

Tinna Grétarsdóttir

Chapter 3. Flexibility Frictions: Economies of Connection in Contemporary Forms of Work

Christina Garsten

Chapter 4. Taking Over the Gift: The Circulation and Exchange of Options, Labour and 'Lucky Money' in Alberta's Oil and Gas Industry

Caura Wood

Chapter 5. How to Stay Entangled in a World of Flows: Flexible Subjects and Mobile Knowledge in the New Media Industries

Hannah Knox

Chapter 6. The Payoff of Love and the Traffic of Favours: Reciprocity, Social Capital and the Blurring of Value Realms in Flexible Capitalism

Susana Narotzky

Chapter 7. Flexible Capitalism and Transactional Orders in Colonial and Postcolonial Mauritius: A Post-Occidentalist View

Patrick Neveling

Chapter 8. The Corrosion of Character Revisited: Rethinking Uncertainty and Flexibility

Jens Kjaerulff

Chapter 9. Afterword: Exchange and Corporate Forms Today

Keir Martin

Notes on Contributors

Index


About the author


Jens Kjaerulff is a social anthropologist whose publications include Internet and Change: an Anthropology of Knowledge and Flexible Work (Intervention Press, 2010). He has held positions at Simon Fraser University, University of Victoria, and University of Manchester, and is conducting independent research and serving as a consultant PhD supervisor.

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Approaching “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.

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"This volume comprises a series of insightful essays that apply existing debates in anthropology . . . to new empirical contexts of work under flexible capitalism. While each of the chapters makes a valuable contribution in itself, taken together the essays raise a wealth of new issues and question some long-standing assumptions within economic anthropology about work and its lived experience."  ·  Geert De Neve, University of Sussex

The book is an intriguing compilation of research that deals with changes in modern labour and employment. Its authors add new perspectives to debates in sociology of work and contemporary social thought.”  ·  Vera Trappmann, Universität Magdeburg

Product details

Authors Jens Kjaerulff
Assisted by Jens Kjaerulff (Editor), Kjaerulff Jens (Editor)
Publisher BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.03.2015
 
EAN 9781782386155
ISBN 978-1-78238-615-5
No. of pages 296
Series EASA Series
EASA Series
Subjects Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Sociology: work & labour, Sociology: work and labour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General

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