Mechanisms of invisibility: rethinking the concept of invisible work

E Hatton - Work, employment and society, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
In the mid-1980s, Daniels coined the term 'invisible work'to characterize those types of
women's unpaid labour–housework and volunteer work–which had been culturally and …

For a sociology of flesh and blood

L Wacquant - Qualitative sociology, 2015 - Springer
This article elaborates the social ontology and methodology of carnal sociology as a
distinctive mode of social inquiry eschewing the spectatorial posture to grasp action-in-the …

Homelessness, American style

D Mitchell - Urban Geography, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
This study traces the historical geography of homelessness in America. It provides a
synoptic overview of the production of homelessness in the United States and the varying …

The circle of dispossession: Evicting the urban poor in Baltimore

G Purser - Critical Sociology, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Although tenant evictions are routine in impoverished urban communities throughout the
USA, scholars of housing and urban poverty have consistently overlooked this social …

Producing precarity: The temporary staffing agency in the labor market

EF Elcioglu - Qualitative Sociology, 2010 - Springer
On the basis of fieldwork in a temporary staffing agency (TSA), I argue that while temp
agencies may provide transitional mobility for jobseekers, in the long run the TSA …

Pour une sociologie de chair et de sang: Traduction de Michaël Busset et Michaël Cordey, revue par l'auteur

L Wacquant - Terrains & travaux, 2015 - cairn.info
Cet article élabore l'ontologie et la méthodologie sociales de la sociologie charnelle comme
mode distinctif d'investigation déjouant la posture spectatrice pour saisir l'action-en-trainde …

“Still doin'time:” Clamoring for work in the day labor industry

G Purser - WorkingUSA, 2012 - brill.com
An extensive body of research has documented the barriers faced by ex-offenders in the
labor market. This article presents an ethnographic case study of an industry that actively …

The labour of liminality

G Purser - Labour, Capital and Society/Travail, capital et société, 2012 - JSTOR
The formal day-labour business is a well-entrenched, multibillion dollar industry that
exemplifies the two most consequential changes in contemporary employment relations: the …

Por una Sociología de carne y sangre

L Wacquant - Revista del Museo de Antropología, 2019 - SciELO Argentina
WACQUANT, Loïc. Por una Sociología de carne y sangre. Rev. Mus. Antropol.[online]. 2019,
vol. 12, n. 1, pp. 117-124. ISSN 1852-060X. Resumen Este artículo elabora la ontología …

" A questo non rinuncio". Pratiche del corpo e precariato.

D Sparti, MC Addis - Sociologia (Gangemi Editore SpA), 2021 - search.ebscohost.com
After using Bourdieu to clarify why and with what consequence flexploitation has become a
widespread work mode, we articulate a specific hypothesis: in critical times of instable and …