TY - BOOK AU - Ashraf,Hasan AU - Hoffmann,Michael AU - Hoffmann,Michael Peter AU - Ivanova,Katerina AU - Kaba,Arnaud AU - Kasmir,Sharryn AU - Kuruüzüm,Umut AU - Nayak,Suravee AU - Soul,Julia AU - Strümpell,Christian AU - Tollardo,Andrea AU - Weißenfels,André TI - Industrial Labour in an Unequal World: Ethnographic Perspectives on Uneven and Combined Development T2 - Work in Global and Historical Perspective , SN - 9783111304267 AV - HD8686 .S778 2023 U1 - 331.0954 23 PY - 2023///] CY - München, Wien PB - De Gruyter Oldenbourg KW - Labor KW - Working class KW - Entwicklungsstudien KW - Ethnographie KW - Globalgeschichte KW - Industrielle Arbeit KW - HISTORY / Social History KW - bisacsh KW - Global history KW - ethnography KW - industrial labour, development studies N1 - Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Table of Contents --; Introduction: The Relevance of Trotsky’s ‘Uneven and Combined Development’ for the Anthropology of Industrial Labour --; Uneven and Combined Development in Nepal: Industrial food-factories, unions and the urban anticipation economy --; Workers and Transnational Unionism in a Latin American Steel Corporation --; In the Web of Movements: Floating Industrial Labour between Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan --; From Militancy to Cooperation: Uneven Development and Labour Struggles within the Automotive Industry in East Germany --; Eating Rocks: Multi-scale Confluence of Industrial Expansion and Mobile Labour in an Italian Alpine Extractive Industry --; Uneven and Combined Development and the Politics of Labour in an Eastern Indian Coalfield: Shifts and Changes from Late Colonialism to Neoliberalism --; ‘A Good Job But Not A Good Life’: Ambiguous Realities and Uneven and Combined Development in a Tunisian Factory --; The Uneven and Combined Development of Christmas Ornament Glass Production in Eastern France --; Uneven and Combined Development in Bangladesh’s Garment Industry: The Politics of Up-Scaling, Up-Skilling and Re-masculinizing Labour --; Uneven and Combined Development and the Anthropology of Capitalism: An Afterword --; List of Contributors --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - The volume scrutinizes the fundamentally uneven character of industrial production and working class formation by bringing together anthropologists specializing on industrial labour in various locations from South America, Western and Eastern Europe, North Africa, and South Asia. Through their engagement with Leon Trotsky’s concept of ‘uneven and combined development’ the authors unravel the complex relations that connect (and disconnect) labour in their sites of research with workers in other places and other times. As the contributions likewise reveal, the unevenness and combination inherent in industrial developments shape and are at the same time also shaped by the different politics workers in an unequal world pursue, as well as the historical experiences and future expectations of workers that inform these. With the attention the authors pay to the specificities of ethnographic detail as well as to broader regional and global developments the volume demonstrates the value of long-term ethnographic research and is of interest to a wide audience ranging from specialists in the fields of anthropology, history, sociology and development studies to students and activists UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111311418 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783111311418 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783111311418/original ER -