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Workers' Dilemmas: Recruitment, Reliability and Repeated Exchange: An Analysis of Urban Social Networks and Labour Circulation book cover

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Workers' Dilemmas Recruitment, Reliability and Repeated Exchange: An Analysis of Urban Social Networks and Labour Circulation

By Margaret Grieco Copyright 1996
250 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge

250 Pages
by Routledge
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Originally published in 1996, Workers’ Dilemmas analyses the management skills of those with least resources, the women of the urban poor, and finds that there is an abundance of evidence on the high levels of managerial competence within this group. It is information which has largely been hidden from history. This study of poor women’s involvement in the world of work corrects this missing... Read more

Acknowledgements.  1. Introduction and Outline of Central Themes  2. Rural Skills in the Urban Occupational Repertoire: A Critique of ‘Urbanist’ Orthodoxy  3. The Role of Urban Social Networks in the Organisation of Rural Employment  4. Organising the Household Finances: The Contribution of Women’s Rural Wages to Urban Budgeting  5. A Festival for Labour: Redressing the Damage of Urban Living  6. Social Networks and the Transmission of Occupational Skills  7. Reproduction of the Urban Neighbourhood in a Rural Setting: The Commercial Dimension  8. Strengthening the ‘Dangerous Classes’ Stereotype: The Role of the Religious Missions  9. The Employers’ Perspective: Securing a Reliable Source of Labour  10. Conclusion: Collective Skill – The End of a Tradition, the End of a Community?  Bibliography.  Index.

Biography

Margaret Grieco

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