The Liminal Worker

The Liminal Worker examines the experience of work employment employment insecurity and precariousness in a context of high unemployment and welfare state crisis in modern Greece. A theoretically-informed anthropological exploration of the notion of work in contemporary western society and its relation to processes of political decision making this book challenges the mainstream conception of work as an economic or purely productive activity presenting a comparative analysis of work as a social phenomenon. Drawing on original empirical research it explores the key themes of the transformation experience meaning and narrative of work and its relation to attendant social policies. A unique examination of the complicated experience of work and labour relations within power systems institutions and organisations as well as the reactions and survival strategies of ordinary actors facing precariousness in their daily existence The Liminal Worker elaborates upon the notion of the anthropology of work and investigates the connection between ethnographic data (and its critical analysis) and the formation of policy. As such it will be of interest to anthropologists sociologists policy makers and geographers concerned with questions of work labour relations and policy formation. Language: English