Explores sociality in work environments marked by the kind of structural changes that have come to define contemporary "flexible" capitalism. Introduces anthropological exchange theory to a wider readership. The essays contribute to a trans-disciplinary scholarship on contemporary economic practice and change.
Explores sociality in work environments marked by the kind of structural changes that have come to define contemporary "flexible" capitalism. Introduces anthropological exchange theory to a wider readership. The essays contribute to a trans-disciplinary scholarship on contemporary economic practice and change.
Jens Kjaerulff is a social anthropologist whose publications include Internet and Change: an Anthropology of Knowledge and Flexible Work (Intervention Press, 2010). He has held positions at Simon Fraser University, University of Victoria, and University of Manchester, and is conducting independent research and serving as a consultant PhD supervisor.
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Acknowledgements Introduction Jens Kjaerulff Chapter 1. Everybody Gives: Gifts in the Global Factory Jamie Cross Chapter 2. Unveiling the Work of the Gift: Neoliberalism and the Flexible Margins of Nation-State Tinna Grétarsdóttir Chapter 3. Flexibility Frictions: Economies of Connection in Contemporary Forms of Work Christina Garsten Chapter 4. Taking Over the Gift: The Circulation and Exchange of Options, Labour and 'Lucky Money' in Alberta's Oil and Gas Industry Caura Wood Chapter 5. How to Stay Entangled in a World of Flows: Flexible Subjects and Mobile Knowledge in the New Media Industries Hannah Knox Chapter 6. The Payoff of Love and the Traffic of Favours: Reciprocity, Social Capital and the Blurring of Value Realms in Flexible Capitalism Susana Narotzky Chapter 7. Flexible Capitalism and Transactional Orders in Colonial and Postcolonial Mauritius: A Post-Occidentalist View Patrick Neveling Chapter 8. The Corrosion of Character Revisited: Rethinking Uncertainty and Flexibility Jens Kjaerulff Chapter 9. Afterword: Exchange and Corporate Forms Today Keir Martin Notes on Contributors Index
Acknowledgements Introduction Jens Kjaerulff Chapter 1. Everybody Gives: Gifts in the Global Factory Jamie Cross Chapter 2. Unveiling the Work of the Gift: Neoliberalism and the Flexible Margins of Nation-State Tinna Grétarsdóttir Chapter 3. Flexibility Frictions: Economies of Connection in Contemporary Forms of Work Christina Garsten Chapter 4. Taking Over the Gift: The Circulation and Exchange of Options, Labour and 'Lucky Money' in Alberta's Oil and Gas Industry Caura Wood Chapter 5. How to Stay Entangled in a World of Flows: Flexible Subjects and Mobile Knowledge in the New Media Industries Hannah Knox Chapter 6. The Payoff of Love and the Traffic of Favours: Reciprocity, Social Capital and the Blurring of Value Realms in Flexible Capitalism Susana Narotzky Chapter 7. Flexible Capitalism and Transactional Orders in Colonial and Postcolonial Mauritius: A Post-Occidentalist View Patrick Neveling Chapter 8. The Corrosion of Character Revisited: Rethinking Uncertainty and Flexibility Jens Kjaerulff Chapter 9. Afterword: Exchange and Corporate Forms Today Keir Martin Notes on Contributors Index
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