{"product_id":"anthropologies-of-unemployment-jong-bum-kwon-9781501704666","title":"Anthropologies of Unemployment: New Perspectives on Work and Its Absence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnthropologies of Unemployment\u003c\/i\u003e offers accessible, theoretically innovative, and ethnographically rich examinations of unemployment in rural and urban regions across North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. The diversity of case studies demonstrates that unemployment is a pressing global phenomenon that sheds light on the uneven consequences of free-market ideologies and policies. Economic, social, and cultural marginalization is common in the lives of the unemployed, but their experience and interpretation are shaped by local and national cultural particularities. In exploring those differences, the contributors to this volume employ recent theoretical innovations and engage with some of the more salient topics in contemporary anthropology, such as globalization, migration, youth cultures, bureaucracy, class, gender, and race.Taken together, the chapters reveal that there is something new about unemployment today. It is not a temporary occurrence, but a chronic condition. In adjusting to persistent, longstanding unemployment, people and groups create new understandings of unemployment as well as of work and employment; they improvise new forms of sociality, morality, and personhood. Ethnographic studies such as those found in \u003ci\u003eAnthropologies of Unemployment \u003c\/i\u003eare crucial if we are to understand the broader forms, meanings, and significance of pervasive economic insecurity and discover the emergence of new social and cultural possibilities.Contributors \u003cbr\u003eJosh Fisher, High Point University\u003cbr\u003eDavid Karjanen, University of Minnesota\u003cbr\u003eAnn E. Kingsolver, University of Kentucky\u003cbr\u003eJong Bum Kwon, Webster University\u003cbr\u003eCarrie M. Lane, California State University, Fullerton\u003cbr\u003eCaitrin Lynch, Olin College \u003cbr\u003eDaniel Mains, University of Oklahoma\u003cbr\u003eJohn P. Murphy, Gettysburg College\u003cbr\u003eMariano D. Perelman, University of Buenos Aires\u003cbr\u003eFrances Abrahamer Rothstein, Montclair State University\u003cbr\u003eClaudia Strauss, Pitzer College\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jong Bum Kwon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501704664\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501704666\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e ILR Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/09\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2017","brand":"Jong Bum Kwon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43985270866175,"sku":"9781501704666","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e0335944-43d8-4043-bc36-73aad5d1de86.jpg?v=1683276569","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/anthropologies-of-unemployment-jong-bum-kwon-9781501704666","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}