Dimitra Kofti is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology at Panteion University (Athens). She has conducted research on work in Bulgaria and on labour and financialization in Greece as a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

• List of IllustrationsNotes on Translation and TransliterationIntroduction: ‘We Are Like Broken Glass’Chapter 1. Multiple Temporalities and Shifting Ideologies in MladostChapter 2. Global Inequalities in Close Proximity: Workers’ Divisions, ‘The Market’, Managers and Clients around the Conveyor BeltChapter 3. Homework: Gender, Household, and Intimate Relationships across and beyond the Production LineChapter 4. The Rigidities and Elasticities of FlexibilityChapter 5. Smoking and Idle Chimneys: Multiple Temporalities, (in)Visible Labour and Workers’ Identifications in Dilapidating Industrial SpacesChapter 6. Change, Continuity and CrisisConclusionReferencesIndex

“The work is firmly grounded in the findings generated through original and thorough ethnographic research, and it is through these findings that the author contributes significantly to important and ongoing debates in academia and beyond.” • Victoria Goddard, University of London“This book is an outstanding example of how an anthropologist’s unique knowledge can change our understanding of global transformations.” • Detelina Tocheva, PSL Research University Paris

Dimitra Kofti is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology at Panteion University (Athens). She has conducted research on work in Bulgaria and on labour and financialization in Greece as a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

• List of IllustrationsNotes on Translation and TransliterationIntroduction: ‘We Are Like Broken Glass’Chapter 1. Multiple Temporalities and Shifting Ideologies in MladostChapter 2. Global Inequalities in Close Proximity: Workers’ Divisions, ‘The Market’, Managers and Clients around the Conveyor BeltChapter 3. Homework: Gender, Household, and Intimate Relationships across and beyond the Production LineChapter 4. The Rigidities and Elasticities of FlexibilityChapter 5. Smoking and Idle Chimneys: Multiple Temporalities, (in)Visible Labour and Workers’ Identifications in Dilapidating Industrial SpacesChapter 6. Change, Continuity and CrisisConclusionReferencesIndex

“The work is firmly grounded in the findings generated through original and thorough ethnographic research, and it is through these findings that the author contributes significantly to important and ongoing debates in academia and beyond.” • Victoria Goddard, University of London“This book is an outstanding example of how an anthropologist’s unique knowledge can change our understanding of global transformations.” • Detelina Tocheva, PSL Research University Paris

Dimitra Kofti is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology at Panteion University (Athens). She has conducted research on work in Bulgaria and on labour and financialization in Greece as a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

• List of IllustrationsNotes on Translation and TransliterationIntroduction: ‘We Are Like Broken Glass’Chapter 1. Multiple Temporalities and Shifting Ideologies in MladostChapter 2. Global Inequalities in Close Proximity: Workers’ Divisions, ‘The Market’, Managers and Clients around the Conveyor BeltChapter 3. Homework: Gender, Household, and Intimate Relationships across and beyond the Production LineChapter 4. The Rigidities and Elasticities of FlexibilityChapter 5. Smoking and Idle Chimneys: Multiple Temporalities, (in)Visible Labour and Workers’ Identifications in Dilapidating Industrial SpacesChapter 6. Change, Continuity and CrisisConclusionReferencesIndex

“The work is firmly grounded in the findings generated through original and thorough ethnographic research, and it is through these findings that the author contributes significantly to important and ongoing debates in academia and beyond.” • Victoria Goddard, University of London“This book is an outstanding example of how an anthropologist’s unique knowledge can change our understanding of global transformations.” • Detelina Tocheva, PSL Research University Paris