The contributors to this volume interrogate the labour/capital relation
exploring the ways in which industrial outsourcing and subcontracting
transform the conditions, possibilities and politics of work.
- Discusses the effects of economic deregulation on agricultural
economies and on local markets
- Investigates the manner in which migration changes understandings of
productive power in places that once depended on the physical and
social energies of people who now labour elsewhere
- Shows how the appearance and/or disappearance of waged work alters not
only the foundational notions of the relationship between productive
and reproductive labour, but also of personhood, citizenship and place
- Deploys the concept of dislocation to extend the repertoire of labour
analysis beyond that of dispossession and/or disorganization
- Argues that a renewed focus on 'labour, ' as both a social category
and a social practice, offers a window for grasping key contemporary
material, affective, moral, social and political processes