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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