Christine Jeske The Laziness Myth: Narratives of Work and the Good Life in South Africa 9781501752513

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Автор: Christine Jeske
Название: The Laziness Myth: Narratives of Work and the Good Life in South Africa
ISBN: 9781501752513
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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История Африки

Социальная и культурная антропология, этнография

Производственные отношения, здоровье и безопасность

Производственные отношения

ISBN-10: 1501752510
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 246
Вес: 0.03 кг.
Дата издания: 15.12.2020
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 3 b&w halftones, 2 b&w line drawings - 3 halftones, black and white - 2 line drawings, black and white
Размер: 22.91 x 15.19 x 1.42 cm
Ключевые слова: African history,Industrial relations, health & safety,Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, HISTORY / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa,POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Подзаголовок: Narratives of work and the good life in south africa
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When people cannot find good work, can they still find good lives? By investigating this question in the context of South Africa, where only 43 percent of adults are employed, Christine Jeske invites readers to examine their own assumptions about how work and the good life do or do not coincide. The Laziness Myth challenges the widespread premise that hard work determines success by tracing the titular laziness myth, a persistent narrative that disguises the systems and structures that produce inequalities while blaming unemployment and other social ills on the so-called laziness of particular class, racial, and ethnic groups.

Jeske offers evidence of the laziness myths harsh consequences, as well as insights into how to challenge it with other South African narratives of a good life. In contexts as diverse as rapping in a library, manufacturing leather shoes, weed-whacking neighbors yards, negotiating marriage plans, and sharing water taps, the people described in this book will stimulate discussion on creative possibilities for seeking the good life in and out of employment, in South Africa and elsewhere.

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Introduction: "We want to live a good life"
1. "They don't want to work": The Laziness Myth
2. "You can't understand it": Employers' Perspectives of the Unemployed
3. "I need to respect that person and that person needs to respect me": The Res

The Laziness Myth: Narratives of Work and the Good Life in South Africa, Christine Jeske