The Cultural Value of Work
Livelihoods and Migration in the World's Economies
- Author: David Griffith, East Carolina University
- Date Published: July 2022
- availability: Not yet published - available from October 2024
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009100281
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Traditional wage labor has experienced a significant decline in industrialized countries over the past few decades. The spread of temporary work, the proliferation of subcontracting arrangements, the use of artificial intelligence (AI), the shipment of manufacturing jobs overseas, and the employment of foreign contract workers are among the key factors driving this decline. The result is a rise of labor insecurity and fragmentation among increasingly diverse forms of flexible labor arrangements. This book examines this important transformation by considering the impact of foreign contract labor on temporary migrant workers in their places of employment and home communities. It assesses work as a source of value in capitalist, reproductive, domestic, and cultural economics, and argues for a new, work-centric field of economics. Rich in examples, it is a sophisticated anthropological appreciation of the many forms that work can take and what these forms mean for the creation of value in people's lives.
Read more- Demonstrates the growing importance of contract labor and guestworkers in the world's economies
- Gives empirical evidence for the ways in which guestworkers and other contract workers develop constellations of livelihoods that connect different economies
- Develops detailed information on different forms of labor that people combine in their livelihoods, and the social relations, expectations and rewards that accompany them
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- Date Published: July 2022
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781009100281
- length: 275 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 152 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.53kg
- availability: Not yet published - available from October 2024
Table of Contents
Introduction: the cultural value of work
Part I. Labor in Ethnohistorical Settings
1. It isn't Santa Claus coming to town: European expansion into Arctic environments
2. Dispossession and conscription: Euro-American use of Native American labor
3. Labor for forests: European expansion through naval stores
Part II. Values of Forms of Labour
4. The value of reproductive labor
5. Domestic economic labour, part I
6. Domestic economic labor, Part II
7. Cultural labor in migration economies
Part III. Labor in Economic and Anthropological Theory
8. Labor, value, culture
9. An anthropology of economics
Appendix A: a note on the qualifications of the author.
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