Manos Spyridakis

The Liminal Worker

An Ethnography of Work, Unemployment and Precariousness in Contemporary Greece

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Liminal Worker examines the experience of work, employment, employment insecurity and precariousness in a context of high unemployment and welfare state crisis in modern Greece. A theoretically-informed, anthropological exploration of the notion of work in contemporary western society and its relation to processes of political decision making, this book challenges the mainstream conception of work as an economic or purely productive activity, presenting a comparative analysis of work as a social phenomenon. Drawing on original empirical research, it explores the key themes of the transformation, experience, meaning and narrative of work and its relation to attendant social policies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780815347422
• ISBN-10: 0815347421
• Artikelnr.: 52009654

Autorenporträt

Manos Spyridakis is Assistant Professor of the Social Anthropology of Labour Relations in the Department of Social and Educational Policy at the University of the Peloponnese, Greece.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Situating Liminality
Chapter 3 Tobacco Workers
Chapter 4 Shipbuilding Workers
Chapter 5 Bank Employees
Conclusion