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Industrial Labour in an Unequal World Ethnographic Perspectives on Uneven and Combined Development 1st Edition

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Full Title

Industrial Labour in an Unequal World Ethnographic Perspectives on Uneven and Combined Development 1st Edition

Author(s)

Christian Strümpell, Michael Hoffmann

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9783111311661, 9783111304267, 9783111311418

Publisher

De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

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.