dc.contributor.author | Ferguson, James | |
dc.contributor.author | Li, Tania Murray | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-03-18T10:03:25Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-03-18T10:03:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-04 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Ferguson, J., Li, T.M. (2018) 'Beyond the “Proper Job:” Political-economic Analysis after the Century of Labouring Man’, Working Paper 51. PLAAS, UWC: Cape Town. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10566/4538 | |
dc.description.abstract | This programmatic article proposes an approach to global political-economic inquiry in
the wake of the failure of long-established transition narratives, notably the narrative
centred on a universal trajectory from farm-based and “traditional” livelihoods into the
“proper jobs” of a modern industrial society. The prevalence and persistence of
“informal”, “precarious”, and “non-standard” employment in so many sites around the
world, it suggests, requires a profound analytical decentering of waged and salaried
employment as a presumed norm or telos, and a consequent reorientation of our
empirical research protocols. The authors seek to further such a reorientation by
identifying a set of specific political-economic questions that are in some sense portable,
and can profitably be applied to a diverse range of empirical contexts around the world.
But it is the questions that are shared, not the answers. By generating a matrix of
difference and similarity across cases, the paper points toward a research agenda
capable both of finding answers to concrete questions that arise in specific settings, and
of generating comparative insights and the identification of large-scale patterns. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Beyond the “Proper Job:” Political-economic Analysis after the Century of Labouring Man | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Working Paper;51 | |
dc.subject | Livelihoods | en_US |
dc.subject | Modern industrial society | en_US |
dc.subject | Informal employment | en_US |
dc.subject | Proper job | en_US |
dc.subject | Unemployment | en_US |
dc.title | Beyond the “proper job:” Political-economic analysis after the century of labouring man | en_US |
dc.type | Working Paper | en_US |