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"Above the Pay" Author: [UK] William Monteith / [UK] Dora-Olivia Vercor / [UK] Philippa Williams Publisher: China Workers Publishing House
"Above the Pay" Author: [UK] William Monteith / [UK] Dora-Olivia Vercor / [UK] Philippa Williams Publisher: China Workers Publishing House
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Introduction · · · · · ·
⭐14 true stories about "work" and "labor" from all over the world, breaking the stereotype of "formal work"
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⭐Explore the value of "informal work" beyond salary - richer social experience, better control of life time, and freedom from all kinds of workplace discrimination...
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16 scholars from different disciplines recorded the work experiences of 14 "informal workers" from all over the world. Due to our stereotypes of "formal work" - fixed contract periods, regular salaries, and social security, these workers are excluded from the "scope of work" and the social and government security systems, and their economic conditions are mostly unstable, but in the process of "doing side jobs" and "doing odd jobs", they also gain control over their free time and interpersonal relationships. This book aims to present a kaleidoscope of working life experiences in a diversified economy, and to arouse everyone's rethinking of the connotation of "traditional work" and "labor".
About the Author
author:
[UK] William Monteith is a lecturer at the School of Geography at Queen Mary University of London and a PhD in International Development from the University of East Anglia. He studies the ethnic groups in the socio-economic life of Central Europe, focusing on how capitalist economies ignore human labour.
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[British] Dora-Olivia Vicor is an anthropologist with a PhD from the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on social justice and population mobility. She has crossed the academic world to found an employment rights charity, and also documents European immigration and bureaucracy, employers and the immigration industry.
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[UK] Philippa Williams is a human geography researcher at Queen Mary University of London. Her research covers politics, digitalization and development geography, focusing on everyday digital political life in the United States, India and its transnational communities. She has published a monograph on the silk sari industry in Varanasi, India.
Translator:
Pan Xin, born in 1997 in Fujian, is a graduate student at Gannan Normal University in Jiangxi Province. She has participated in many translation projects at home and abroad. The road to translation is long, and I would like to thank all my colleagues.
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Tian Minggang, born in 1967, is from Shaanxi Province. He is an associate professor at Gannan Normal University and a doctoral student at Shanghai International Studies University. He teaches English and American literature and translation courses and has participated in the translation of many books.
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