Workers' expressions
Subtitle: beyond accommodation and resistance
By: John Calagione, Doris Francis, and Daniel Nugent, editors.
Contributors: Calagione, John.; Francis, Doris, 1940-; Nugent, Daniel.
Series: SUNY series in the anthropology of work
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: Work -- Social aspects; Leisure -- Social aspects; Popular culture; Economic anthropology
Description: "This book explores the interrelations between work and social life. It emphasizes how workers' expressive forms and public performances connect with processes of social, cultural, and individual empowerment. Departing from perspectives that emphasize organizational integration, equilibrium, and continuity, the authors present evidence from anthropology, history, and folklore to explore intersection of popular culture and working situations." "The authors offer new data in the on-going debate about the separation of work and leisure, and raise questions about the diverse representations of class and the labor process. They identify workers' cultural values that emerge within the changing context of production, and that are not merely an outcome of industrial hegemony. Instead, workers' representations and articulations of craft mastery, class identity, and gender, reveal transformations of the traditional categories of those who produce and those who appropriate value. The studies of workers' lives range from contemporary United States and Mexico to China, India, and Japan."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-219) and index.