Contents: Introduction: Political affairs in the global domain / Christina Garsten and Adrienne Sörbom. -- 1. Building an architecture for political influence: Atlas and the transnational institutionalization of the neoliberal think tank / Marie Laure Djelic -- 2. Global policy bricolage: the...

Approaching “work” as at heart a practice of exchange, this volume explores sociality in work environments marked by the kind of structural changes that have come to define contemporary “flexible” capitalism. It introduces anthropological exchange theory to a wider readership, and shows...

pt. 1. The changing nature of work -- pt. 2. Organization of the triangular employment relationship -- pt. 3. Managing the temporary workforce -- pt. 4. Variety in the development and the organization of temporary agency work.