Flexible capitalism: exchange and ambiguity at work
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 documen…
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- Full title :Flexible capitalism : exchange and ambiguity at work / edited by Jens Kjaerulff.
Summary
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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- Publication Date:2015.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Berghahn Books
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (viii, 287 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781782386162, 1782386165
- oclc:ocn935495667
- LC Classification:HD6955
- Dewey Decimal:331.2
Table of Contents
Intro -- 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 -- Index.
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