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The Wages Of Precarious Work: An Ethnography Of Upstate South Carolina’S Reserve Army Of The Laboring, Henry Bundy
The Wages Of Precarious Work: An Ethnography Of Upstate South Carolina’S Reserve Army Of The Laboring, Henry Bundy
Theses and Dissertations--Anthropology
The proliferation of precarious work represents a sea change in the opportunity structure of the new economies of the American South. As the role of the State has shifted from guarantor of rights and services to anxious custodian of economic liberalization, Americans have been enjoined to shoulder ever-larger shares of the responsibilities and risks associated with wage labor. As a result, the working poor have been left to weather the vicissitudes of the unfettered market with the increasingly paltry social membership guaranteed through waged employment. Among the risks now frequently assumed by individuals, are the responsibilities of health.
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