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Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline
Factory Women in Malaysia
Av Aihwa Ong
Häftad, 2010
453 kr
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New edition of Aihwa Ong's classic ethnographic study of Malay women factory workers.In the two decades since its original publication, Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline has become an ethnographic classic in the fields of anthropology, labor studies, and gender and globalization …
Apprenticeship
From Theory to Method and Back Again
Häftad, 1989
596 kr
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This book examines the phenomenon of apprenticeship by exploring it as a social, economic, and educational institution. Studies of apprenticeship in both craft occupations and supernatural specializations in Africa, Latin America, North America, and Asia are offered. The authors also look at …
Workers' Expressions
Beyond Accommodation and Resistance
Av John Calagione, Doris Francis m. fl.
Häftad, 1992
477 kr
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This book explores the interrelations between work and social life. It emphasizes how workers' expressive forms and public performances connect with processes of social, cultural, and individual empowerment. Departing from perspectives that emphasize organizational integration, equilibrium, and …
Concept of Work
Ancient, Medieval, and Modern
Häftad, 1992
525 kr
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This book presents an analysis amd review of work, starting with the Homeric period, then dealing with classical Greece and classical Rome, the early Christians and Jews, the early Middle Ages, the era of Charlemagne, the high Middle Ages, the views of Luther and Calvin, the English and French …
Jones's Minimal
Low-Wage Labor in the United States
Häftad, 1993
477 kr
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This book addresses the ways employers in American industries use race, gender, ethnicity, and institutions of the state and the church to manipulate workers' networks and communities, and ultimately, to control the supplies and characteristics of their labor.Griffith focuses on the labor processes …
Meanings of Work
Considerations for the Twenty-First Century
Häftad, 1995
463 kr
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Examines the fast-changing patterns of work in the global market and the resulting social, cultural, and economic impact on the work force.Meanings of Work examines interconnected cultural, social, and economic dimensions of human work. It provides an innovating interdisciplinary basis for …
Two Milpas of Chan Kom
Scenarios of a Maya Village Life
Häftad, 1996
453 kr
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An ethnographic account of Chan Kom, a contemporary Maya community in Yucatan, Mexico that focuses on the social schism within the community resulting from an accelerated process of migration to Cancun, a major tourist center.Chan Kom is a Maya community in the Yucatán peninsula that is currently …
Myth of Mondragon
Cooperatives, Politics, and Working Class Life in a Basque Town
Häftad, 1996
463 kr
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Shows how the creation of an idealized image of the Mondragon cooperatives is part of a new global ideology that promotes cooperative labor-management relations in order to discredit labor unions and working-class organizations.This is the first critical account of the internationally renowned …
Contesting Agriculture
Cooperativism and Privatization in the New Eastern Germany
Av Hans C. Buechler, Judith-Maria Buechler
Häftad, 2002
391 kr
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Examines the privatization of agriculture in eastern Germany since 1989.This analysis of the privatization of agriculture in eastern Germany captures the turbulent times after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent reunification of the two Germanies. Based in large part on oral …
Brickyards to Graveyards
From Production to Genocide in Rwanda
Häftad, 2002
459 kr
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Explores how the conditions that shaped Rwanda's labor organization and industries also shaped Rwanda's genocide.Brickyards to Graveyards examines how the overidealized picture of Rwanda as the darling of the world community in the 1980s was shattered amidst the genocide that occurred a decade …
Workers and Narratives of Survival in Europe
The Management of Precariousness at the End of the Twentieth Century
Häftad, 2004
463 kr
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Chronicles the growing impact of job uncertainty on workers in Europe.Workers and Narratives of Survival in Europe explores the growing problem of job uncertainty in Europe at the end of the twentieth century. The management of professional precariousness is reconsidered against the backdrop of …
Subsidizing Capitalism
Brickmakers on the U.S.-Mexican Border
Inbunden, 2005
1446 kr
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Examines the economic activities of self-employed brickmakers and the unpaid family members and others who assist them in Mexico.In Mexico, self-employed brickmakers support capitalist enterprise by providing bricks to build hotels, factories, office buildings, and shopping malls at costs lower …
Subsidizing Capitalism
Brickmakers on the U.S.-Mexican Border
Häftad, 2006
563 kr
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Examines the economic activities of self-employed brickmakers and the unpaid family members and others who assist them in Mexico.In Mexico, self-employed brickmakers support capitalist enterprise by providing bricks to build hotels, factories, office buildings, and shopping malls at costs lower …
Women, Men, and the International Division of Labor
Av June C. Nash, María P. Fernández-Kelly
Häftad, 1984
504 kr
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The last few decades have witnessed a growing integration of the world system of production on the basis of a new relationship between less developed and highly industrialized countries. The effect is a geographical dispersion of the various production stages in the manufacturing process as the …
For We are Sold, I and My People
Women and Industry in Mexico's Frontier
Häftad, 1984
463 kr
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On the basis of systematic research and personal experience, For We Are Sold, I and My People uncovers some of the social costs of modern production. Maria Patricia Fernandez-Kelly peels off the labels—"Made in Taiwan," "Assembled in Mexico"—and the trade names—RCA, Sony, General Motors, United …
Work in Market and Industrial Societies
Häftad, 1984
608 kr
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It's a living! That fact, no one can deny. Yet the significance of work-productive activity which alters the physical environment to meet human needs-goes far beyond the paycheck. Work involves, among other things, embracing a set of roles and beliefs, mastering skills and knowledge, and behaving …
Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline
Factory Women in Malaysia
Av Aihwa Ong
Inbunden, 2010
1018 kr
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New edition of Aihwa Ong's classic ethnographic study of Malay women factory workers.In the two decades since its original publication, Spirits of Resistance and Capitalist Discipline has become an ethnographic classic in the fields of anthropology, labor studies, and gender and globalization …
Invisible Factories
The Informal Economy and Industrial Development in Spain
Häftad, 1990
405 kr
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Invisible Factories analyzes the role of the informal economy in national development and weighs alternative claims about its impact on industrial development. Detailed case studies of the electronics and shoe industries in Spain demonstrate the restructuring process. Benton examines the …
American Enterprise in Japan
Häftad, 1991
435 kr
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This book describes how American and Japanese management ideologies meet, collide, and contend in the process of competitive cooperation during a joint venture in Japan. In a detailed case study, Hamada describes the very real problems when Japanese and American managers run a business operation, …
Crafts in the World Market
The Impact of Global Exchange on Middle American Artisans
Av June C. Nash
Häftad, 1993
413 kr
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The growing exchange of traditional craft objects in world markets has had a profound impact on the lives of the women and men who produce them. These essays describe how the flow of goods from the industrial centers of the world to the colonies in earlier centuries is now met by a reverse flow as …
Union Voices
Labor's Responses to Crisis
Häftad, 1992
435 kr
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The contributors to this book are labor activists reflecting on their direct experiences and their union's efforts to address the serious problems facing them in a rapidly changing political and economic environment. The authors discuss now new forms of international competition, corporate …
Jones's Minimal
Low-Wage Labor in the United States
Inbunden, 1993
1144 kr
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This book addresses the ways employers in American industries use race, gender, ethnicity, and institutions of the state and the church to manipulate workers' networks and communities, and ultimately, to control the supplies and characteristics of their labor.Griffith focuses on the labor processes …
Myth of Mondragon
Cooperatives, Politics, and Working Class Life in a Basque Town
Inbunden, 1996
1111 kr
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Shows how the creation of an idealized image of the Mondragon cooperatives is part of a new global ideology that promotes cooperative labor-management relations in order to discredit labor unions and working-class organizations.This is the first critical account of the internationally renowned …
More Than Class
Studying Power in U.S. Workplaces
Häftad, 1998
401 kr
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Examines the changing texture of power relations in non-traditional U.S. worksites.More Than Class examines the changing texture of power relations in U.S. workplaces, focusing on sites ranging from security booths to bedrooms to mining shafts, rather than the traditional shop floor. The …
In the Wake of the Giant
Multinational Restructuring and Uneven Development in a New England Community
Häftad, 1998
373 kr
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Contrasting "native" and "outsider" points of view, this book explores the contemporary realities of work, development and redevelopment in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, a New England community undergoing rapid industrial restructuring.Based on anthropological fieldwork in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, …
Embroidering Lives
Women's Work and Skill in the Lucknow Embroidery Industry
Häftad, 1999
401 kr
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Fusing aesthetic and economic perspectives in exploring the lives and work of women in the Lucknow, India embroidery industry, this book offers insights into anthropology of work and women's studies.Fusing aesthetic and economic analyses, Embroidering Lives investigates the lives and work of women …
Contesting Agriculture
Cooperativism and Privatization in the New Eastern Germany
Av Hans C. Buechler, Judith-Maria Buechler
Inbunden, 2002
1111 kr
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Examines the privatization of agriculture in eastern Germany since 1989.This analysis of the privatization of agriculture in eastern Germany captures the turbulent times after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent reunification of the two Germanies. Based in large part on oral …
Circle of Goods
Women, Work, and Welfare in a Reservation Community
Inbunden, 2003
1111 kr
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Studies how women in a reservation economy have creatively responded to federal policy.Circle of Goods compiles the stories of Native American women and examines their kinship, wage work, and informal economies. Responding to the upheavals of reservation life brought about by federal policies-from …
Circle of Goods
Women, Work, and Welfare in a Reservation Community
Häftad, 2003
394 kr
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Studies how women in a reservation economy have creatively responded to federal policy.Circle of Goods compiles the stories of Native American women and examines their kinship, wage work, and informal economies. Responding to the upheavals of reservation life brought about by federal policies-from …
In the Name of Harmony and Prosperity
Labor and Gender Politics in Taiwan's Economic Restructuring
Av Anru Lee
Inbunden, 2004
1111 kr
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Offers an analysis of the dynamics of Taiwan's export-oriented industrialization, particularly its impact on women and other workers.Since the 1980s Taiwan has grown into a global manufacturing powerhouse, a model of success that has inspired emulation throughout the developing world. Yet at the …
