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The Cultural Value of Work
David Griffith
其他書名
Livelihoods and Migration in the World's Economies
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 2022-07-28
主題
Business & Economics / Economics / General
Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy
Social Science / Anthropology / General
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Social Science / Sociology / General
ISBN
1009100289
9781009100281
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=B0t6EAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Traditional wage labor has experienced a significant decline in industrialized countries over the past few decades. The spread of temporary work, the proliferation of subcontracting arrangements, the use of artificial intelligence (AI), the shipment of manufacturing jobs overseas, and the employment of foreign contract workers are among the key factors driving this decline. The result is a rise of labor insecurity and fragmentation among increasingly diverse forms of flexible labor arrangements. This book examines this important transformation by considering the impact of foreign contract labor on temporary migrant workers in their places of employment and home communities. It assesses work as a source of value in capitalist, reproductive, domestic, and cultural economics, and argues for a new, work-centric field of economics. Rich in examples, it is a sophisticated anthropological appreciation of the many forms that work can take and what these forms mean for the creation of value in people's lives.