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Flexible Capitalism: Exchange and Ambiguity at Work
Jens Kjaerulff (Ed.)
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Description for Flexible Capitalism: Exchange and Ambiguity at Work
Hardback. Introducing anthropological exchange theory to a wider readership, this volume explores sociality in work environments marked by the kind of structural changes that have come to define contemporary "flexible" capitalism. It makes a novel contribution to a trans-disciplinary scholarship on contemporary economic practice.. Editor(s): Kjaerulff, Jens. Series: EASA Series. Num Pages: 288 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: JHBL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 578.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Series
EASA Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782386155
SKU
V9781782386155
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About Jens Kjaerulff (Ed.)
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.
Reviews for Flexible Capitalism: Exchange and Ambiguity at Work
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 ... Read more