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Workers and narratives of survival in Europe : the management of precariousness at the end of the twentieth century / edited by Angela Procoli

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Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2004]
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©2004
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1 online resource (vii, 223 pages).
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Procoli, Angela and European Association of Social Anthropologists
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Contents
Workers and Narratives of Survival in Europe -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction ANGELA PROCOLI -- PART I: Identity and the Experience of Work -- 1. The Hazards of Overemployment: What Do Chief Executives and Housewives Have in Common? SANDRA WALLMAN -- 2. Secret Enterprise: Market Activities among London Sex Workers SOPHIE DAY -- 3. The Political Economy of Affects: Community, Friendship, and Family in the Organization of a Spanish Economic Region SUSANA NAROTZKY -- Part II: Liminality and the Narrative of Survival., 4. Manufacturing the New Man: Professional Training in France-Life Stories and the Reshaping of Identities ANGELA PROCOLI -- 5. Passages to No-Man's-Land: Connecting Work, Community, and Masculinity in the South Wales Coalfield RICHARD-MICHAEL DIEDRICH -- 6. Unemployed and Hard Workers: Entrepreneurial Moralities between "Shadow" and "Sunlight" in Naples ITALO PARDO -- PART III: Continuity or Discontinuity with the Past? -- 7. Productivity and the Person: From Socialist Competition to Capitalist Mission in Eastern Europe BIRGIT MÜLLER., and 8. Redefining Work in a Local Community in Poland: "Transformation" and Class, Culture, and Work MICHAL BUCHOWSKI -- 9. Working in the West: Managing Eastern Histories at the German Labor Market-The Case of Russian German Immigrants REGINA RÖMHILD -- Contributors -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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1423739841 (electronic bk.)
9781423739845 (electronic bk.)
0791460851 (alk. paper)
9780791460856 (alk. paper)
9780791485118
0791485110
Note
Revised versions of papers presented at the fifth and sixth meetings of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), held respectively in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, in Sept. 1998 and in Krakow, Poland, in July 2000.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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