Interrupted futures

Co-operative labour and the changing forms of collective precarity in rural Andean Peru

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2253190
AutoresPenny Harvey (0000-0001-7765-1221, University of Manchester, autor de correspondencia)
Año2018
Volumen24
NúmeroS1
Páginas120-133
Fecha de publicación2018-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1359-0987 • E-ISSN: 1467-9655
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-9655.12803
OpenAlexW2790981977
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas15

Sociological interest in precarious labour has focused on the existential insecurity associated with the discontinuous work relations of contemporary modes of production and the difficulties produced for the formation of effective modes of social and political solidarity. This essay, by contrast, explores the continuities of precarious living in the Southern Peruvian Andes over the past century, with a focus on how the affective force of social obligations and responsibilities to wider collectives (such as the family, the peasant community, or the co-operative) both support and interrupt the search for more stable personal and collective futures. Approaching precarity as a relational condition, the essay traces how precarity takes form in the movements between formal and informal labour practices

Economics · Existentialism · Futures contract · Peasant · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Precarious work · Precarity · Sociology · Solidarity · Work (physics · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender Studies · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Law · Taxation and Compliance Studies