Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction Angela Procoli
Part I. Identity and the Experience of Work
1. The Hazards of Overemployment: What Do Chief Executives and Housewives Have in Common? Sandra Wallman
2. Secret Enterprise: Market Activities among London Sex Workers Sophie Day
3. The Political Economy of Affects: Community, Friendship, and Family in the Organization of a Spanish Economic Region Susana Narotzky
Part II. Liminality and the Narrative of Survival
4. Manufacturing the New Man: Professional Training in FranceLife Stories and the Reshaping of Identities Angela Procoli
5. Passages to No-Man’s-Land: Connecting Work, Community, and Masculinity in the South Wales Coalfield Richard-Michael Diedrich
6. Unemployed and Hard Workers: Entrepreneurial Moralities between "Shadow" and "Sunlight" in Naples Italo Pardo
Part III. Continuity or Discontinuity with the Past?
7. Productivity and the Person: From Socialist Competition to Capitalist Mission in Eastern Europe Birgit Müller
8. Redefining Work in a Local Community in Poland: "Transformation" and Class, Culture, and Work Michal Buchowski
9. Working in the West: Managing Eastern Histories at the German Labor MarketThe Case of Russian German Immigrants Regina Römhild
Contributors
Index