'You Don't Know' - (Easa) by Jacob A E Nielsen (Hardcover)

About the Book

"People employed at sites of precarious work such as call centres or retail warehouses often live precarious lives. Drawing on ethnographic research in a London hostel for precarious workers, the book explores the political, analytical and practical limitations of using traditional methods of trying to make sense of life in these settings. Traditional methods are rooted in practices that emerge from privileged social positions and their enactment is deeply entangled with the processes that create these conditions in the first place. This book responds to this by experimenting with 'precarious methods' to enable greater agency to those placed in these precarious situations"--

Book Synopsis

People employed at sites of precarious work such as call centres or retail warehouses often live precarious lives. Drawing on ethnographic research in a London hostel for precarious workers, the book explores the political, analytical and practical limitations of using traditional methods of trying to make sense of life in these settings. Traditional methods are rooted in practices that emerge from privileged social positions and their enactment is deeply entangled with the processes that create these conditions in the first place. This book responds to this by experimenting with 'precarious methods' to enable greater agency to those placed in these precarious situations.

Review Quotes

"This is a provocative, critical inquiry into a topic too often ignored. Neilsen has produced a meticulous, creative methodology." - Nicole Vitellone, University of Liverpool

"This is an incredible book that makes truly field-shifting advances in the sociology of work and labour, as well as contributing exciting creative methodological innovations." - Maddie Breeze, University of Stirling