E. Paul Durrenberger, Suzan Erem

Class Acts (eBook, PDF)

An Anthropology of Urban Workers and Their Union

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

American labor leaders are constantly developing new programs to revive the union movement. What happens when these plans collide with the daily lives of front-line union staff and members? This book examines the often conflicting interests of key players in the trenches of a national effort to bring back the American labor movement. Brutally honest, funny, never dull, this anthropological ethnography shows the daily struggles of union members today to bring about positive change and hold together their urban labor union in an era of globalization, outsourcing, and deindustrialization. A union activist and an anthropologist (the authors) pair up to offer insideoutside views of labor unions and of how anthropological fieldwork is done. Explaining, coaching, and warning Paul of hazards, Suzan, the communications director for the Local, provides inside views and details of day-to-day interactions. Paul, the anthropologist, provides outside analytical views that related Suzan's experiences and his own observations to the wider view anthropology offers through ethnography, holism, and comparativism. The result is a story of one dynamic union local, one anthropological study, and the lit fuse that connects them until the end.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317262329
• Artikelnr.: 44366388

Autorenporträt

Durrenberger, E. Paul; Erem, Suzan

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I The Science: What We Learned
Chapter 1 Taking It on the Road
Chapter 2 What a Union Looks Like
Chapter 3 Being a Union Rep
Chapter 4 The Anthropology of It
Chapter 5 Disasters
Chapter 6 Ritual
Chapter 7 Getting a Raise
Chapter 8 The Boss Over a Barrel
Chapter 9 That'll Teach You
Chapter 10 What Does Change People's Minds?
Part II The Stories: What We Went Through to Learn It
Chapter 11 Sifting through the Remains
Chapter 12 Translating Anthropology
Chapter 13 Riding with Tiny
Chapter 14 A Day in the Life
Chapter 15 We Smell a Rat
Chapter 16 The Study Explodes
Chapter 17 Report To The Local
Chapter 18 The Aftermath
Chapter 19 An Old Song
epi Epilogue