kellymckowen.bsky.social
Anthropologist @ William & Mary | Research on political economy, welfare, morality, and tech in Norway | Book Review Editor for Economic Anthropology.
👤 Joined on 15 August 2023
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@kellymckowen.bsky.social“Under capitalism, being unemployed is a hardship. Yet the experience of unemployment in countries with generous welfare states is radically different from what Americans are used to.” Read an excerpt of Down and Out in Utopia in @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social: bit.ly/4iWcS9p @kellymckowen.bsky.social
Show PostFor Norwegians who lose their jobs, a comprehensive welfare system makes the experience of unemployment materially and morally very different from what unemployed workers in the United States undergo.
Show Post@kellymckowen.bsky.social ial examines Norway’s social investment as a normative order through ethnographic study of job-seeker courses, showing how they shape moral education around individual responsibility and a 'natural' job market within social democracy. doi.org/10.1177/0001...
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