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Author:   Dimitra Kofti
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781805390367

ISBN 10:   1805390368
Pages:   284
Publication Date:   11 August 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Notes on Translation and Transliteration Introduction: 'We Are Like Broken Glass' Chapter 1. Multiple Temporalities and Shifting Ideologies in Mladost Chapter 2. Global Inequalities in Close Proximity: Workers' Divisions, 'The Market', Managers and Clients around the Conveyor Belt Chapter 3. Homework: Gender, Household, and Intimate Relationships across and beyond the Production Line Chapter 4. The Rigidities and Elasticities of Flexibility Chapter 5. Smoking and Idle Chimneys: Multiple Temporalities, (in)Visible Labour and Workers' Identifications in Dilapidating Industrial Spaces Chapter 6. Change, Continuity and Crisis Conclusion References Index

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The work is firmly grounded in the findings generated through original and thorough ethnographic research, and it is through these findings that the author contributes significantly to important and ongoing debates in academia and beyond. * Victoria Goddard, University of London This book is an outstanding example of how an anthropologist's unique knowledge can change our understanding of global transformations. * Detelina Tocheva, PSL Research University Paris

Author Information

Dimitra Kofti is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology at Panteion University (Athens). She has conducted research on work in Bulgaria and on labour and financialization in Greece as a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

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