@ftermining - Economic transformation of an Alpine mining community: Reflections on economic anthropology

This contribution concerns itself with the changes that have come about in a Styrian mining community due to deindustrialization. The author, after a brief description of the community in question, considers issues of work an d working societies in the late modern period as well as the global/local d ialectic. The body of the paper, however, is focused on the responses to th e economic changes themselves. On the one hand, such changes evoke specific discourses, while on the other hand, they lead to practical strategies and tactics - in de Certeau's sense - to master the problems that have arisen. Those creative solutions that have shown themselves to be particularly suc cessful have combined native and traditional knowledge with adaptation to t he conditions of the postmodern economy.