The liminal worker [ an ethnography of work, unemployment and precariousness in contemporary Greece

The Liminal Worker examines the experience of work, employment, employment insecurity and precariousness in a context of high unemployment and welfare state crisis in modern Greece. A theoretically-informed, anthropological exploration of the notion of work in contemporary western society and its re...

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Main Author: Spyridakis, Manos (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Surrey, England : Ashgate , c2013
Series:Urban anthropology
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Online Access:http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/iviewer/ASHGATEB0002603/userkey/pc/1/0/read.html

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