Work and Livelihoods: History, Ethnography and Models in Times of Crisis

Winner of the Society for the Anthropology of Work book prize 2017

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.

Victoria Goddard is Senior Lecturer and National Teaching Fellow at the Anthropology Department at Goldsmiths.

Susana Narotzky is professor of Social Anthropology at the Universitat de Barcelona, Spain.