Winner of the Society for the Anthropology of Work book prize 2017This volume presents a global range of ethnographic case studies to explore the ways in which - in the context of the restructuring of industrial work, the ongoing financial crisis, and the surge in unemployment and precarious employment - local and global actors engage with complex social processes and devise ideological, political, and economic responses to them. It shows how the reorganization and re-signification of work, notably shifts in the perception and valorization of work, affect domestic and community arrangements and shape the conditions of life of workers and their families.

1. Work and Livelihoods: an Introduction Victoria GoddardSection I - Past, Present and Future: Generations in Times of Crisis2. Lost Generations? Unemployment, Migration and New Knowledge Regimes in Post EU Poland Frances Pine3. Credentialism and Recommendations: The Bases of the Reproduction of the Metallurgical Working Class in Contemporary Argentina Laura Perelman and Patricia Vargas4. Continuity and Disruption: the Experiences of Work and Employment Across Three Generations of Steelworkers in Volta Redonda Gonzalo Díaz CrovettoSection II - Continuities and Discontinuities5. Postfordist Work Organization and Daily Life from a Gender Perspective: the Case of FIAT-SATA in Melfi Fulvia D'Aloisio6. Profession, Masculinity, and Identity: Biographical Crisis of British and German Steelworkers in Comparison Vera Trappmann7. Employment Precariousness and Social Reproduction in the Shipbuilding Industry of Piraeus Manos SpyridakisSection III - Lives of Worth