Flexible capitalism : exchange and ambiguity at work

Flexible capitalism : exchange and ambiguity at work / edited by Jens Kjaerulff.

Approaching "work" as at heart a practice of exchange, this volume explores sociality in work environments marked by the kind of structural changes that have come to define contemporary "flexible" capitalism. It introduces anthropological exchange theory to a wider readership, an...

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Other Authors: Kjaerulff, Jens (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2015.
Series:EASA series ; v. 25.
Subjects:
Work environment > Social aspects.
Adaptability (Psychology)
Interpersonal relations.
Capitalism > Social aspects.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
Capitalism > Social aspects
Interpersonal relations
Work environment > Social aspects
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Flexible Capitalism
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 Everybody Gives
  • 2 Unveiling the Work of the Gift
  • 3 Flexibility Frictions
  • 4 Taking Over the Gift
  • 5 How to Stay Entangled in a World of Flows
  • 6 The Payoff of Love and the Traffic of Favours
  • 7 Flexible Capitalism and Transactional Orders in Colonial and Postcolonial Mauritius
  • 8 The Corrosion of Character Revisited
  • 9 Afterword
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index.

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