Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism

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.

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Preface

Chris Hann



Introduction: Precarity, Class, and the Neoliberal Subject

Jonathan Parry



Chapter 1. Varieties of Capital, Fracture of Labor: A Comparative Ethnography of Subcontracting and Labor Precarity on the Zambian Copperbelt

Ching Kwan Lee



Chapter 2. Miners and Their Children: The Remaking of the Soviet Working Class in Kazakhstan

Eeva Kesküla



Chapter 3. Work, Precarity and Resistance: Company and Contract Labor in Kazakhstan’s Former Soviet Steel Town

Tommaso Trevisani



Chapter 4. Regular Work in Decline, Precarious Households and Changing Solidarities in Bulgaria

Dimitra Kofti



Chapter 5. Precarious Labor and Precarious Livelihoods in an Indian Company Town

Christian Strümpell



Chapter 6. Regimes of Precarity: Buruh, Karyawan, and the Politics of Labor Identity in Indonesia

Daromir Rudnyckyj



Chapter 7. Between God and the State: Class, Precarity, and Cosmology on the Margins of an Egyptian Steel Town

Dina Makram-Ebeid



Chapter 8. The (Un-)Making of Labor: Capitalist Accelerations and Their Human Toll at a South Korean Shipyard in the Philippines

Elisabeth Schober



Chapter 9. Relative Precarity: Decline, Hope and the Politics of Work

Andrew Sanchez



Chapter 10. From Avtoritet and Autonomy to Self-exploitation in the Russian Automotive Industry

Jeremy Morris and Sarah Hinz



Chapter 11. Precarity, Guanxi, and the Informal Economy of Peasant Workers in Contemporary China

I-Chieh Fang



Chapter 12. From Dispossessed Factory Workers to “Micro-entrepreneurs”: The Precariousness of Employment in Trinidad’s Garment Sector

Rebecca Prentice



Chapter 13. Towards a Political Economy of Skill and Garment Work: The Case of the Tiruppur Industrial Cluster in South India

Grace Carswell and Geert De Neve



Chapter 14. From Casual to Permanent Work: Maoist Unionists and the Regularization of Contract Labor in the Industries of Western Nepal

Michael Peter Hoffmann



Afterword: Third Wave Marketization

Michael Burawoy



Index