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Work, Society, and the Ethical Self : Chimeras of Freedom in the Neoliberal Era / ed. by Chris Hann.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy ; 7Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781800732254
  • 9781800732261
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 174 23
LOC classification:
  • HD4905 .W666 2021
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Work and Ethics in Anthropology -- 1 The Meaning of “Free” Work Service as a Gift, and Labor as a Commodity for Ni-Vanuatu Labor Migrants -- 2 On the Meanings of Pleasure: Work, Ethics, and Freedom in the Hunza Valley -- 3 Ethics of Work and Freedom in the Argentinean Andes: Value Creation and Virtuous Self-Crafting through Miniature Production -- 4 Pursuing Pleasure at Work: Friendship and Precarity at North Indian Call Centers -- 5 More Than Money: Work as Self-Realization in Accra’s Private Media -- 6 Capitalism, Overwork, and Polanyi’s Dialectics of Freedom: Emerging Visions of Work–Life Balance in Contemporary Urban China -- 7 From Freedom to Loaf to Freedom to Work: The Late Socialist Countermovement and Liberalization from Below in Yugoslavia -- 8 Max Weber’s Heirs? Work and Ethics among Small Business Owners in East Germany -- 9 Click for Work: Rethinking Freedom through Online Work Distribution Platforms -- 10 Unicorn-Makers Working for Freedom (and Monopolies) The Work of Venture Capital Investors -- 11 Individuality, Teamwork, and Work Processes in a Financial Services Center in Germany -- 12 Writing without Fear—or Bylines: Freedom and Frustration among US American Ghostwriters -- Afterword -- Index
Summary: Primarily on the basis of ethnographic case-studies from around the world, this volume links investigations of work to questions of personal and professional identity and social relations. In the era of digitalized neoliberalism, particular attention is paid to notions of freedom, both collective (in social relations) and individual (in subjective experiences). These cannot be investigated separately. Rather than juxtapose economy with ethics (or the profitable with the good), the authors uncover complex entanglements between the drudgery experienced by most people in the course of making a living and ideals of emancipated personhood.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Work and Ethics in Anthropology -- 1 The Meaning of “Free” Work Service as a Gift, and Labor as a Commodity for Ni-Vanuatu Labor Migrants -- 2 On the Meanings of Pleasure: Work, Ethics, and Freedom in the Hunza Valley -- 3 Ethics of Work and Freedom in the Argentinean Andes: Value Creation and Virtuous Self-Crafting through Miniature Production -- 4 Pursuing Pleasure at Work: Friendship and Precarity at North Indian Call Centers -- 5 More Than Money: Work as Self-Realization in Accra’s Private Media -- 6 Capitalism, Overwork, and Polanyi’s Dialectics of Freedom: Emerging Visions of Work–Life Balance in Contemporary Urban China -- 7 From Freedom to Loaf to Freedom to Work: The Late Socialist Countermovement and Liberalization from Below in Yugoslavia -- 8 Max Weber’s Heirs? Work and Ethics among Small Business Owners in East Germany -- 9 Click for Work: Rethinking Freedom through Online Work Distribution Platforms -- 10 Unicorn-Makers Working for Freedom (and Monopolies) The Work of Venture Capital Investors -- 11 Individuality, Teamwork, and Work Processes in a Financial Services Center in Germany -- 12 Writing without Fear—or Bylines: Freedom and Frustration among US American Ghostwriters -- Afterword -- Index

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Primarily on the basis of ethnographic case-studies from around the world, this volume links investigations of work to questions of personal and professional identity and social relations. In the era of digitalized neoliberalism, particular attention is paid to notions of freedom, both collective (in social relations) and individual (in subjective experiences). These cannot be investigated separately. Rather than juxtapose economy with ethics (or the profitable with the good), the authors uncover complex entanglements between the drudgery experienced by most people in the course of making a living and ideals of emancipated personhood.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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