TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cross,Jamie
AU  - Garsten,Christina
AU  - Grétarsdóttir,Tinna
AU  - Kjaerulff,Jens
AU  - Knox,Hannah
AU  - Martin,Keir
AU  - Narotzky,Susana
AU  - Neveling,Patrick
AU  - Wood,Caura
TI  - Flexible Capitalism: Exchange and Ambiguity at Work 
T2  - EASA Series
SN  - 9781782386155
U1  - 331.2 23/eng/20231120
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Capitalism
KW  - Economic Anthropology
KW  - Employment
KW  - Flexible Capitalism
KW  - Labor
KW  - Neoliberalism
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; 1 Everybody Gives Gifts in the Global Factory --; 2 Unveiling the Work of the Gift Neoliberalism and the Flexible Margins of the Nation-State --; 3 Flexibility Frictions Economies of Connection in Contemporary Forms of Work --; 4 Taking Over the Gift The Circulation and Exchange of Options, Labour and ‘Lucky Money’ in Alberta’s Oil and Gas IndustryStock Options, Labour and Money in the Alberta Oil Industry --; 5 How to Stay Entangled in a World of Flows Flexible Subjects and Mobile Knowledge in the New Media Industries --; 6 The Payoff of Love and the Traffic of Favours Reciprocity, Social Capital and the Blurring of Value Realms in Flexible Capitalism --; 7 Flexible Capitalism and Transactional Orders in Colonial and Postcolonial Mauritius: A Post-Occidentalist View --; 8 The Corrosion of Character Revisited Rethinking Uncertainty and Flexibility --; 9 Afterword Exchange and Corporate Forms Today --; Notes on Contributors --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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, and shows how the perspective offers new ways to enquire about the flexible capitalism’s social dimensions. The essays contribute to a trans-disciplinary scholarship on contemporary economic practice and change by documenting how, across diverse settings, “gift-like” socialities proliferate, and even sustain the intensified flexible commoditization that more commonly is touted as tearing social relations apart. By interrogating a keenly debated contemporary work regime through an approach to sociality rooted in a rich and distinct anthropological legacy, the volume also makes a novel contribution to the anthropological literature on work and on exchange
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781782386162?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781782386162
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781782386162/original
ER  -