Beyond the “proper job:” Political-economic analysis after the century of labouring man

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dc.contributor.authorFerguson, James
dc.contributor.authorLi, Tania Murray
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-18T10:03:25Z
dc.date.available2019-03-18T10:03:25Z
dc.date.issued2018-04
dc.description.abstractThis programmatic article proposes an approach to global political-economic inquiry in the wake of the failure of long-established transition narratives, notably the narrative centred on a universal trajectory from farm-based and “traditional” livelihoods into the “proper jobs” of a modern industrial society. The prevalence and persistence of “informal”, “precarious”, and “non-standard” employment in so many sites around the world, it suggests, requires a profound analytical decentering of waged and salaried employment as a presumed norm or telos, and a consequent reorientation of our empirical research protocols. The authors seek to further such a reorientation by identifying a set of specific political-economic questions that are in some sense portable, and can profitably be applied to a diverse range of empirical contexts around the world. But it is the questions that are shared, not the answers. By generating a matrix of difference and similarity across cases, the paper points toward a research agenda capable both of finding answers to concrete questions that arise in specific settings, and of generating comparative insights and the identification of large-scale patterns.en_US
dc.identifier.citationFerguson, J., Li, T.M. (2018) 'Beyond the “Proper Job:” Political-economic Analysis after the Century of Labouring Man’, Working Paper 51. PLAAS, UWC: Cape Town.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/4538
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherBeyond the “Proper Job:” Political-economic Analysis after the Century of Labouring Manen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesWorking Paper;51
dc.subjectLivelihoodsen_US
dc.subjectModern industrial societyen_US
dc.subjectInformal employmenten_US
dc.subjectProper joben_US
dc.subjectUnemploymenten_US
dc.titleBeyond the “proper job:” Political-economic analysis after the century of labouring manen_US
dc.typeWorking Paperen_US

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