The Liminal Worker: An Ethnography of Work, Unemployment and Precariousness in Contemporary Greece 1317025423, 9781317025429

Transmedia Work: Privilege and Precariousness in Digital Modernity 1138301132, 9781138301139

In Transmedia Work ̧ Karin Fast and André Jansson explore several key questions that frame the study of the social and c

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Fragments of Solidarity: An Ethnography of an Alternative Community in Modern Greece 9783839466988

How is solidarity understood by the people who practice it actively and daily? What is the role of solidarity in reconci

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A Disability of the Soul: An Ethnography of Schizophrenia and Mental Illness in Contemporary Japan 9780801467998

Bethel House, located in a small fishing village in northern Japan, was founded in 1984 as an intentional community for

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Contemporary Rewritings of Liminal Women 9780429297823

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Youth Work: An Institutional Ethnography of Youth Homelessness 9781442668171

Youth Work is a sophisticated examination of the troubling experiences of young people living outside the care of parent

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Regulating Transitions from School to Work: An Institutional Ethnography of Activation Work in Action 9783839457061

How are activation programs for the young unemployed implemented? How do grassroot-level bureaucrats deal with competing

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Youth Work: An Institutional Ethnography of Youth Homelessness 9781442668171

Youth Work is a sophisticated examination of the troubling experiences of young people living outside the care of parent

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The Work of Inclusion: An Ethnography of Grace, Sin, and Intellectual Disabilities 9780567698308, 9780567698292, 9780567698339, 9780567698322

Using ethnographic research, The Work of Inclusion brings the standpoints of people with intellectual disabilities to th

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Made in Sheffield: An Ethnography of Industrial Work and Politics 9781845459024

In 1900, Sheffield was the tenth largest city in the world. Cutlery “made in Sheffield” was used across the globe, and t

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Nationhood at Work: An Ethnography of Workplaces in Montreal and Brussels 9783839445624

How are nations (continued to be) made? In this important contribution to nationalism studies, Dave Poitras explores how

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