Production, Labour Market and Working Life

Danish ethnology – similar to most Scandinavian and Central European ethnology – has a long tradition of inquring into society’s basic means of subsistence, i.e. its material end economic conditions, and understands this in relationship to its social architecture. The article sketches some significant historical transformations of production and working practices, and discusses, moreover, how to comprehend the complexity of contemporary capitalism in relation to businnes and work; the latter further being exemplified through a case study of one particular Danish company and (what can be seen as) its connected life-modes.

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