Industrial labor on the margins of capitalism : precarity, class, and the neoliberal subject / edited by Chris Hann and Jonathan Parry.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1. Varieties of Capital, Fracture of Labor -- Chapter 2. Miners and Their Children -- Chapter 3. Work, Precarity, and Resistance -- Chapter 4. Regular Work in Decline, Precarious Households, and Changing Solidarities in Bulgaria -- Chapter 5. Precarious Labor and Precarious Livelihoods in an Indian Company Town -- Chapter 6. Regimes of Precarity -- Chapter 7. Between God and the State -- Chapter 8. The (Un-)Making of Labor -- Chapter 9. Relative Precarity -- Chapter 10. From Avtoritet and Autonomy to Self-Exploitation in the Russian Automotive Industry - Chapter 11. Precarity, Guanxi, and the Informal Economy of Peasant Workers in Contemporary China -- Chapter 12. From Dispossessed Factory Workers to “Micro-entrepreneurs” -- Chapter 13. Towards a Political Economy of Skill and Garment Work -- Chapter 14. From Casual to Permanent Work

Bringing together ethnographic case studies of industrial labor from different parts of the world, Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism explores the increasing casualization of workforces and the weakening power of organized labor. This division owes much to state policies and is reflected in local understandings of class. By exploring this relationship, these essays question the claim that neoliberal ideology has become the new 'commonsense' of our times and suggest various propositions about the conditions that create employment regimes based on flexible labor.