What relevance has division of labour in a world of precarious work?

Deborah James

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Abstract: Post-Marx, social scientists have tended to define ‘labour’ by reference to working for others in return for a wage, rather than to a harmonious Durkheimian-style co-dependency. This mini-review of recent anthropological literature considers whether, in a world where the ‘standard employment contract’ is dwindling and many are out of work, ‘division of labour’ has any continuing relevance.

Keywords: anthropology; gender; precarity; work; India; UK (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J01 R14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-03-11
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Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 11, March, 2024. ISSN: 0962-8436

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