Griffith The Cultural Value of Work

Livelihoods and Migration in the World's Economies
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-009-11857-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

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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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Griffith, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Griffith, David
David Griffith is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at East Carolina University. He has been writing about work and migration since the 1980s. He won 2nd place in the James Mooney award for The Estuary's Gift (1999).