Lauren A Hayes
Biographic Data
| ID | 144764 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lauren A Hayes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lauren A |
| FAMILY NAME | Hayes |
| SIGNATURE | HAYES L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Language and Culture in Workplace Ethnography
Scholars studying the anthropology of work have traditionally been interested in questions of power, class, inequality, moral economy, and the transformations brought about by global capitalism. To address these larger questions, workplace ethnography gives attention to both interactional and systemic level analysis, making linguistic methods a powerful tool for studying both talk at work and institutional discourse. Language has many social func…
Managing Dirt: Disciplines of Cleanliness and Contamination at a Kentucky Auto Parts Factory
A legacy of coal mining and manufacturing work in Appalachia has linked regional working-class identity and perceptions of the region to shared experiences of dangerous and stigmatised dirty work. At the same time, manufacturing work here increasingly relies on computerised machinery, systematised practices of cleanliness, and ties to global corporations. This paper, based on 18 months of ethnographic field research explores practices of cleanlin…
Mobile and Temporary: Women and Workplace Precarity in Appalachian Kentucky
Current attention to local economic development in Central Appalachia frequently centers on integrating rural entrepreneurs into a global market. Less consideration has been given, however, to the rising challenges of a rapidly changing waged workplace that is increasingly characterized by temporary employment, expectations of geographic mobility, and decreasing worker protections. Such issues are often exacerbated by continued efforts to attract…
I Don't Always March, but When I Do, I March My Ass to Work
The hidden labor of repayment: Women, credit, and strategies of microenterprise in northern Honduras
Microlending programs, commonly directed at women and presented as a solution to global poverty, provide borrowers credit to support small, informal income-generating activities. These initiatives have garnered much attention from anthropologists, who have long been interested in the social life of credit and debt. Despite numerous anthropological studies critiquing the social and economic consequences of such lending practices, they continue, bo…
The hidden labor of repayment: Women, credit, and strategies of microenterprise in northern Honduras
Microlending programs, commonly directed at women and presented as a solution to global poverty, provide borrowers credit to support small, informal income-generating activities. These initiatives have garnered much attention from anthropologists, who have long been interested in the social life of credit and debt. Despite numerous anthropological studies critiquing the social and economic consequences of such lending practices, they continue, bo…
I Don't Always March, but When I Do, I March My Ass to Work
The hidden labor of repayment: Women, credit, and strategies of microenterprise in northern Honduras
Microlending programs, commonly directed at women and presented as a solution to global poverty, provide borrowers credit to support small, informal income-generating activities. These initiatives have garnered much attention from anthropologists, who have long been interested in the social life of credit and debt. Despite numerous anthropological studies critiquing the social and economic consequences of such lending practices, they continue, bo…
Mobile and Temporary: Women and Workplace Precarity in Appalachian Kentucky
Current attention to local economic development in Central Appalachia frequently centers on integrating rural entrepreneurs into a global market. Less consideration has been given, however, to the rising challenges of a rapidly changing waged workplace that is increasingly characterized by temporary employment, expectations of geographic mobility, and decreasing worker protections. Such issues are often exacerbated by continued efforts to attract…
Managing Dirt: Disciplines of Cleanliness and Contamination at a Kentucky Auto Parts Factory
A legacy of coal mining and manufacturing work in Appalachia has linked regional working-class identity and perceptions of the region to shared experiences of dangerous and stigmatised dirty work. At the same time, manufacturing work here increasingly relies on computerised machinery, systematised practices of cleanliness, and ties to global corporations. This paper, based on 18 months of ethnographic field research explores practices of cleanlin…
Language and Culture in Workplace Ethnography
Scholars studying the anthropology of work have traditionally been interested in questions of power, class, inequality, moral economy, and the transformations brought about by global capitalism. To address these larger questions, workplace ethnography gives attention to both interactional and systemic level analysis, making linguistic methods a powerful tool for studying both talk at work and institutional discourse. Language has many social func…
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Appalachia (2 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy (2 works) · Social science (2 works)