Workers and narratives of survival in Europe : the management of precariousness at the end of the twentieth century

Intro -- Workers and Narratives of Survival in Europe -- 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 France-Life 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 Market-The Case of Russian German Immigrants REGINA RÖMHILD -- Contributors -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.