In this course, we explore what we mean when we talk about "work," looking at how people in different places define and experience it. We look at work in a variety of cultural, social, historical, economic and political contexts - short, we regard work holistically, not just as a set of tasks. Work is not merely a wage-earning or subsistence activity, but a source of personal and group identities and meanings. We investigate common attitudes towards work, grounded as they are in who and where we are, and consider how Western notions of work and personhood infused the colonial encounter, and how these notions continue to tranform local economies and work practices around the globe.
- 教師: Nadel-Klein Jane