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Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
- Anthropology of Labour
- Bourgeoisie and Proletarians
- History and Class
- Technological Fetishism
- Class and Kinship
- Notes on Fieldwork
PART I: ARTISANS
Chapter 1. Morris Ltd
- The Factory as Socio-technical Space
- The Shop Floor
- The Market
- The Formal Organization
- Informal Organization
- A Short Social History of the Machines
- The Social Distribution of Knowledge in Morris
- Discussion about Value in the Break-room
- Political Economy
- Conclusion
Chapter 2. The ‘Return’ of the Informal Economy in Endcliffe
- The Informal Economy Debate in Anthropology
- Informal Production
- Informal Exchanges
- Sex Market: the Elysium Khaled’s
- Conclusion
Chapter 3. Working-class Homes
- Working-class Families and Poverty
- The ‘Post-kinship’ Turn Governmental
- Families and New Extended Households
- Conclusion
Chapter 4. Welcome to Political Limbo
- Local History of Working-class Politics
- Folk Models of Class
- From Steel Town to Leisure Centre
- Cutlers versus Developers
- Fish, Fishermen and Steelworkers
- Reclaiming the Body: Sickness Benefit
- Conclusion
PART II: PROLETARIANS
Chapter 5. Unsor Ltd
- The Place
- The Production Process and Formal Organization
- A Normal Day at the Smelting Shop
- ‘Every Furnace is like a Good-looking Woman’
- Stories of ‘Gods’ and ‘Donkeys’ during Break-times
- The Rolling Mill
- The Grinding Bay
- Health and Safety Politics at Bay 2
- Farewell to Manual Labour
- Conclusion
Chapter 6. A Divided Proletariat
- Charlie Moody: from Working-class to Nursing
- The Strange Disappearance of Charlie Moody
- Being Italian in Worksop: Antonio Masso
- Pepperoni, Lampascioni and Vino Rosso: A Food Journey from the South of Italy to South Yorkshire
- Returning ‘Home’
- Epilogue
- Conclusion
Chapter 7. Community Unionism, Business Unionism – Two Strategies, the Same Phoenix
- Transmutations of Labour Representation
- The Phoenix Flies on the ISTC Divisional Office
- The ISTC in UNSOR
- Political Meeting at the ISTC or Community Unionism in Action
- The Same Phoenix, Different Trajectories
- Reorganization
- The AEU Factory
- Branch Business
- Unionism in Times of Reorganization
- Conclusion
Conclusion
- Farewell to the Working Class?
- Labour and Alienation as Relational Values
- Relational Consciousness as the Basis for Class Struggle
Bibliography
Index
Made in Sheffield
An Ethnography of Industrial Work and Politics
Massimiliano Mollona
212 pages, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-84545-551-4 Hb Published (March 2009)
eISBN 978-1-84545-902-4 eBook