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How We Struggle A Political Anthropology of Labour

Paperback • 2023 • English

How We Struggle A Political Anthropology of Labour

By Sian Lazar

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About the book

A comparative, ethnographic approach to the question of labor struggles and workers' political agency When it comes to labor movements, unionized industrial workers on the factory floor have only ever been part of the picture. Across so many different workplaces, sectors of the economy, and geographical contexts, the question of how working people struggle in the day-to-day has no single answer. Here Sian Lazar offers a unique anthropological perspective on labor agency that takes in examples ...Show more

Social theory
Sociology: work and labour
Social and cultural anthropology

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ISBN

9780745347516

Publisher

Pluto Press

Published year

2023

Language

English

Original title

How We Struggle A Political Anthropology of Labour

Format

Paperback

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