ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Precarious Work, Investment Banking, Precarity
9 Apr 2016
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Precarious work is not just for low-waged workers, but also middle class people. More and more people are experiencing it, and it is becoming normal. Investment bankers: who they are and what they do: their world view is shaped by their own experiences of being downsized. Contrast to previous examples: result of their world view lack of obligaion to employer and naturalize boom and bust. Feb 17: bombardier announced that air canada agreed to buy 45 new planes. Ceo announced how amazing it was for the company, but at the same ime they are cuing. They also announced that they are doing something complicated to raise their stocks and they need the government help to perform their new tasks. Up in the air (2009 ilm): they had someone ired them on camera, and asked to act on how they are going to response. An anthropologist, wrote liquidated: an ethnography of wall street (2009)
