Industry and Work in Contemporary Capitalism

Models matter and have material effects on the lives of people. They emerge and change in historical, social and cultural conjunctures that operate at different scales and promote different subjective experiences and conditions of possibility for action. Industry and Work in Contemporary Capitalism engages critically with models of the economy and blueprints of the future, providing an ethnographically rich account of the enactment of models in specific communities. It also addresses the uses of projections into the future as forms of knowledge that are simultaneously powerful instruments of transformation.