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'You Don't Know': Precarious Methods and Life in a Workers' Hostel

'You Don't Know': Precarious Methods and Life in a Workers' Hostel

Nielsen, Jacob A. E.

Hardcover

Series: Easa, Book 54

AnthropologyGeneral SociologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 1805398970
ISBN13: 9781805398974
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: Mar 1 2025
Pages: 226
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
People employed at sites of precarious work such as call centres or retail warehouses often live precarious lives. Drawing on ethnographic research in a London hostel for precarious workers, the book explores the political, analytical and practical limitations of using traditional methods of trying to make sense of life in these settings. Traditional methods are rooted in practices that emerge from privileged social positions and their enactment is deeply entangled with the processes that create these conditions in the first place. This book responds to this by experimenting with 'precarious methods' to enable greater agency to those placed in these precarious situations.

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