Views from three other disciplines. Economics / Walter Elkan. Psychiatry / Leonard Fagin. Biological anthropology / G. Ainsworth Harrison -- Learning the ropes : the politics of dockland / Leonard Mars -- Women's work and children's work : variations among Moslems in Kano / Enid Schildkrout -- Workers, lords and masters : the organisation of labour on South African farms / J.B. Loudon -- The stigma cycle : values and politics in a dockland union / Gerald Mars -- How Sweden works : a case from the bureaucracy / Morris Fred -- Work and value : reflections on ideas of Karl Marx / Raymond Firth -- The estimation of work : labour and value among Paez farmers / Sutti Ortiz -- Mapping means / Stephen Gudeman -- The Whalsay croft : traditional work and customary identity in modern times / Anthony P. Cohen -- The polluted identity of work : a study of Benares sweepers / Mary Searle-Chatterjee --The self and the product : concepts of work in comparative perspective / Erik Schwimmer -- The categorization of work : cases from coastal Kenya / David Parkin -- The work of men, women and the ancestors : social reproduction in the periphery of Southern Africa / Colin Murray -- The hidden work of everyday life / Cato Wadel
Analysis
Work Conference proceedings
Notes
"The papers [of] this volume were ... presented to the A.S.A. Conference 1979 ... held at Derwent College, University of York."