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Spittler, Gerd:
Contesting The Great Transformation : Work in Comparative Perspective.
In: Hann, Chris ; Harth, Keith
(ed.):
Market and Society : The Great Transformation Today. -
Cambridge
: Cambridge University Press
,
2009
. - pp. 160-174
ISBN 978-0-511-58138-0
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511581380.009
Abstract in another language
Karl Polanyi deserves great credit for including the results of anthropological research in his studies on the development of capitalism in Europe in The Great Transformation (1944). This distinguishes him from most other historians not only in his own time but still today. However, the effectiveness of his enterprise was limited by his method of comparison, which relied heavily on dichotomous categories, and by his failure to give enough attention to the subject of work. In this chapter I will first discuss Polanyi's ethnographic sources and show how these are embedded in a longstanding German debate on work. I will then give two examples of how work can be systematically analyzed, “work as interaction” and “working abroad: expeditions and migrants,” in order to suggest what a comparative anthropology of work might look like.
Further data
| Item Type: | Article in a book |
|---|---|
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Keywords: | Polanyi; Ethnography; Work; Anthropology; Market; Economy; Society |
| Institutions of the University: | Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Chair Social and Cultural Anthropology Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Former Professors > Lehrstuhl Ethnologie - Prof. em. Dr. Gerd Spittler Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Former Professors |
| Result of work at the UBT: | Yes |
| DDC Subjects: | 300 Social sciences 300 Social sciences > 300 Social sciences, sociology and anthropology |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Nov 2018 07:58 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Aug 2020 06:42 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/46468 |