Description:
- The focus on regular versus precarious labour.
- Case studies from outside the familiar Euro-American core.
- Ethnographic methods, linking factory work to households and communities.
- Focus on multiple dimensions of social inequality in diverse industrial settings and on how they interact.
Brief description:
Chris Hann is a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Previously he was Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Kent (Canterbury). He has authored and edited numerous books in economic anthropology, especially with reference to socialist and post-socialist societies.
Review Quotes:
"This collection of articles by industrial anthropologists does a magnificent job of describing the nature of work in the neoliberal era. What particularly stands out is the ethnographic descriptions of work often ignored by anthropology, such as Ching Kwan Lee's vivid descriptions of the hellish mines in which Zambian workers toil." - Journal of Anthropological Research
"This well-written, carefully integrated volume, edited by two of the more outstanding British social anthropologists of their generation, offers a valuable contribution to the field." - John Harriss, London School of Economics