Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism - Precarity, Class, and the Neoliberal Subject

The focus on regular versus precarious labour.


Case studies from outside the familiar Euro-American core.


Ethnographic methods, linking factory work to households and communities.


Focus on multiple dimensions of social inequality in diverse industrial settings and on how they interact.

About the author

Chris Hann is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Previously he was Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Kent (Canterbury). He has authored and edited numerous books in economic anthropology, especially with reference to socialist and post-socialist societies.

Jonathan Parry is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics, where he has been affiliated since 1974. He is the author of several classic ethnographies of India, and of major contributions to economic anthropology and general anthropological theory.

Product details

• Authors: Chris Parry Hann
• Assisted by: Chris Hann (Editor), Hann Chris (Editor), Jonathan Parry (Editor), Parry Jonathan (Editor)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9781800731998
• ISBN: 978-1-80073-199-8
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Labour / income economics, Labour Economics, Political Economy, Social and cultural anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Anthropology (General); Political and Economic Anthropology