Moral Economy at Work

Lale Yalçın-Heckmann has been a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale and teaches anthropology at the University of Pardubice, Czech Republic. She is the co-editor of Caucasus Paradigms: Anthropologies, Histories and the Making of a World Area (LIT Publishers, 2007) and author of The Return of Private Property: Rural Life after Agrarian Reform in the Republic of Azerbaijan (LIT Publishers, 2010).

“This edited volume provides valuable insights into the lived experiences of ordinary citizens who do not neatly fit into the rational, autonomous, self-regarding maximizers category imposed by neoclassical economists. Taken together, this set of ethnographic studies shows that a sense of justice experienced by different social groups at work can give insight into moral aspects of economies throughout the world. Scholars in the fields of economic anthropology, development studies, and labor relations will enjoy reading diverse examples of these phenomena from a wide range of locations across Eurasia.” • Exertions“Each chapter carefully contextualizes the social norms, values, and obligations of their respective local setting to demonstrate how the moral economy is at play in various work situations… This well-conceived volume would allow for an engaging discussion in undergraduate (both anthropology majors and non-majors) and graduate classes focusing on work, globalization, and capitalism.” • Anthropos“Contains a set of impressive ethnographic studies from a wide range of locations, introduced and tied together by an extremely clear, thorough and strong Introduction by Lale Yalçın-Heckmann.” • Frances Pine, Goldsmiths, University of London

• List of FiguresIntroduction: Moral Economy at WorkLale Yalçın-HeckmannChapter 1. Freedom and Control: Analysing the Values of Niche Business Owners in Aarhus, DenmarkAnne-Erita G. BertaChapter 2. The ‘Good’ Employer: Mutual Expectations amidst Changing Employment Situations in Pathein, MyanmarLaura HornigChapter 3. Moral Economy and Mutuality at Work: Labour Practices in Tobacco ShopsLuca SzücsChapter 4. Tenacious Ties: The Embedded Trajectory of Small-Scale Enterprises in Provincial IndiaSudeshna ChakiChapter 5. The Morality of Relatedness in Medium-Sized Businesses in Central AnatoliaCeren DenizChapter 6. Post-Soviet Garment Manufacturing in the Era of Global Competition: Between Precarity, Creative Work and Developmental HopesDaria TereshinaChapter 7. FIAT Automobiles Serbia: The Split Moral Economy of Public-Private PartnershipsIvan RajkovićChapter 8. Changing Mutuality: Building a House with Unpaid Labour in BulgariaDetelina TochevaAfterword: Moral Economy in ContextJames G. CarrierIndex