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SUMMARY:Creation and transformation: value and the satisfaction of work - 
 Dr Andrew Sanchez (University of Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Barbara Roe
DESCRIPTION:For the employees of an Indian scrap-metal yard\, work is a pr
 ocess of disassembling things that other people no longer want. Despite th
 e difficult conditions of the labour and the social stigma attached to it\
 , employees express personal satisfaction in the work process itself. This
  observation raises important questions for theories of labour\, alienatio
 n and value\, which primarily see artisanal satisfaction as arising from a
 n act of ‘making’. Based on ethnographic research in the Indian indust
 rial city of Jamshedpur\, this paper suggests a new conceptual framework f
 or understanding why some types of work are experienced in more satisfying
  ways than others. Through an engagement with questions of skill\, value a
 nd agency\, the paper argues that the core of a satisfying work task is a 
 process of transformation\, rather an act of creation.\n\n
LOCATION:Seminar Room SG1\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambri
 dge CB3 9DT
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