Angela Procoli is Researcher in Social Anthropology at Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Sociale, Collège de France and the author of Anthropologie d'une Formation au Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers.

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Angela Procoli

Part I. Identity and the Experience of Work

1. The Hazards of Overemployment: What Do Chief Executives and Housewives Have in Common?
Sandra Wallman

2. Secret Enterprise: Market Activities among London Sex Workers
Sophie Day

3. The Political Economy of Affects: Community, Friendship, and Family in the Organization of a Spanish Economic Region
Susana Narotzky

Part II. Liminality and the Narrative of Survival

4. Manufacturing the New Man: Professional Training in France¿Life Stories and the Reshaping of Identities
Angela Procoli

5. Passages to No-Man's-Land: Connecting Work, Community, and Masculinity in the South Wales Coalfield
Richard-Michael Diedrich

6. Unemployed and Hard Workers: Entrepreneurial Moralities between "Shadow" and "Sunlight" in Naples
Italo Pardo

Part III. Continuity or Discontinuity with the Past?

7. Productivity and the Person: From Socialist Competition to Capitalist Mission in Eastern Europe
Birgit Müller

8. Redefining Work in a Local Community in Poland: "Transformation" and Class, Culture, and Work
Michal Buchowski

9. Working in the West: Managing Eastern Histories at the German Labor Market¿The Case of Russian German Immigrants
Regina Römhild

Contributors

Index