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Title Beyond the wage : ordinary work in diverse economies / edited by William Monteith, Dora-Olivia Vicol and Philippa Williams
Published Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2021

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Contents Front Cover -- Beyond the Wage: Ordinary Work in Diverse Economies -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Work Beyond the Wage -- Provincializing the wage -- Conceptualizing work: three approaches -- Commodified work -- Informal work -- Precarious work -- Ordinary work: towards an alternative framework -- Structure of the book -- Ruptures -- Resignations -- Struggles -- Possibilities -- References -- Part I Ruptures -- 1 "Shit Wages" and Side Hustles: Ordinary Working Lives in Nairobi, London and Berlin
Side hustles -- Hustling as place making in Nairobi -- Side hustling in London -- Hustling for papers in Berlin -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 2 The Work of Looking for Work: Surviving Without a Wage in Austerity Britain -- Work and welfare at a time of austerity -- The rise and fall of wage employment in the Valleys -- Surviving without a wage in austerity Britain -- The work of looking for work -- Work without a wage -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 Seeking Attachment in the Fissured Workplace: External Workers in the United States
The rise of the external worker -- Affective commitments of external workers -- Researching workplace attachments -- Seeking connection in the fissured workplace -- Taking pride in one's organization -- Being included and valued -- Care through fringe benefits -- Working for a common goal -- Forming social relationships -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Part II Resignations -- 4 Wilful Resignations: Women, Labour and Life in Urban India -- Precarity and de-feminization in the new economy of urban India -- Researching women and work in New Delhi, India
Resignations and respectability -- Strategies for sustaining lives -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 5 "Be Your Own Boss": Entrepreneurial Dreams on the Urban Margins of South Africa -- Entrepreneurism in the 'informal economy': from condemnation to celebration? -- Life and labour in Zandspruit -- Hloni: the fixer -- Thatho: the 'connector' -- Time, obligation and flexible reciprocity -- 'Be your own boss': on the appeal of wageless life -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- References
6 Work Outside the Hamster's Cage: Precarity and the Pursuit of a Life Worth Living in Catalonia -- Economic alterity and work outside the wage in Catalonia: a short history -- Escaping the hamster's cage -- Work outside the assalariat -- Fatigue, frustration and exit -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 7 Choosing to Be Unfree? The Aspirations and Constraints of Debt-bonded Brick Workers in Cambodia -- Choosing unfreedom? Unfree labour as oppression and choice -- Agency and constraint: the journey from village to kiln in Cambodia
Summary This volume challenges the idea of wage employment as the global norm, comparing lived experiences of 'ordinary work' across conceptual and geographical boundaries and opening up new possibilities for how work, income, identity and care might be woven together differently
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 14, 2021)
Subject Wages -- Philosophy -- Cross-cultural studies
Employment (Economic theory) -- Cross-cultural studies
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
Wages -- Philosophy
Employment (Economic theory)
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies
Form Electronic book
Author Monteith, William, editor
Vicol, Dora-Olivia, editor
Williams, Philippa, editor
ISBN 9781529208948
1529208947