Broken Glass, Broken Class

Dimitra Kofti is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology at Panteion University (Athens). She has conducted research on work in Bulgaria and on labour and financialization in Greece as a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

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Notes on Translation and Transliteration



Introduction: ‘We Are Like Broken Glass’



Chapter 1. Multiple Temporalities and Shifting Ideologies in Mladost

Chapter 2. Global Inequalities in Close Proximity: Workers’ Divisions, ‘The Market’, Managers and Clients around the Conveyor Belt

Chapter 3. Homework: Gender, Household, and Intimate Relationships across and beyond the Production Line

Chapter 4. The Rigidities and Elasticities of Flexibility

Chapter 5. Smoking and Idle Chimneys: Multiple Temporalities, (in)Visible Labour and Workers’ Identifications in Dilapidating Industrial Spaces

Chapter 6. Change, Continuity and Crisis



Conclusion



References

Index