Deborah James | Clawing Back. Redistribution in Precarious Times, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2025, pp. 209.
Deborah James’s Clawing Back is an elegant and ambitious book about how people secure livelihoods amid precarity. By bringing South Africa and the United Kingdom into the same analytical frame, James asks how ordinary people live when wages are unstable, welfare is inadequate or conditional, and de...
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| Shrnutí: | Deborah James’s Clawing Back is an elegant and ambitious book about how people secure livelihoods amid precarity. By bringing South Africa and the United Kingdom into the same analytical frame, James asks how ordinary people live when wages are unstable, welfare is inadequate or conditional, and debt is woven into everyday survival. The book’s central achievement is refusing to treat these domains separately. Rather than isolating labour, welfare, or finance as distinct anthropological topic... |
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