Broken glass, broken class: transformations of work in Bulgaria

Broken Glass, Broken Class -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Translation and Transliteration -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Multiple Temporalities and Shifting Ideologies in Mladost -- Chapter 2. Global Inequalities in Close Proximity -- Chapter 3. Home-Work -- Chapter 4. The Rigidities and Elasticities of Flexibility -- Chapter 5. Smoking and Idle Chimneys -- Chapter 6. Change, Continuity and Crisis -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.

"Based on a long-term study of the everyday postsocialist politics of labour in the wider context of intense socio-economic transformation in Bulgaria, this book tells the story of the flexibilization of production, the precaritization of work, shifting managerial practices, and ways in which people with different employment statuses live and work together. The ethnography starts with the rapidly moving conveyor belt of a glass factory, where a variety of global and local forces and workers' divisions meet, and analyses how inequalities are reproduced both at the production site and back home."