TY  - BOOK
AU  - Monika Baer
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783631856307
TI  - Agency at Work
T2  - Ethnographies in/of Late Industrialism
DO  - 10.3726/b18576
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1117917
N2  - Rooted in anthropological and ethnological traditions, this volume offers analytical insights into the workings of agency in late industrialism revealed in interactions between a coal power plant and a local community in Opole Silesia, in southwestern Poland. In this context, the authors show by the use of the ethnographic method, how variables and forces of various scales shape political events centered around the power plant; grassroots economic dynamics and entrepreneurship; the local semiosphere uniting the divided social group; affective dimensions of a social protest; (un)doing gender in the industrial workplace; and the mobile livelihoods of migrant industrial workers. By doing so, they concretize in different ways both the concept of late modernity and agency.
KW  - Industrial investment, Local community, Economic transformations, Ethnic divisions, Social protest, Mobile livelihoods
LA  - English
ER  -