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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      14 July 2022
      28 July 2022
      ISBN:
      9781009109000
      9781009100281
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009109000
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.53kg, 266 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Economics, Labour Economics, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology
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    Economics, Labour Economics, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Anthropology
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    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.

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