Bringing together ethnographic case studies of industrial labor from
different parts of the world, Industrial Labor on the Margins of
Capitalism explores the increasing casualization of workforces and the
weakening power of organized labor. This division owes much to state
policies and is reflected in local understandings of class. By exploring
this relationship, these essays question the claim that neoliberal
ideology has become the new 'commonsense' of our times and suggest
various propositions about the conditions that create employment regimes
based on flexible labor.