Based on a long-term study of the everyday postsocialist politics of
labour in the wider context of intense socio-economic transformation in
Bulgaria, this book tells the story of the flexibilization of
production, the precaritization of work, shifting managerial practices,
and ways in which people with different employment statuses live and
work together. The ethnography starts with the rapidly moving conveyor
belt of a glass factory, where a variety of global and local forces and
workers' divisions meet, and analyses how inequalities are reproduced
both at the production site and back home.