Labor in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Herausgeber: Durrenberger, E. Paul; Martí, Judith E.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This excellent new volume in the series from the Society for Economic Anthropology focuses on the role of labor in world economies. Contributors offer a range of case studies illustrating labor processes in both western and nonwestern societies. Individual sections include discussions on household labor, firms and corporatations, and state and transnational conditions. This book will be a valuable resource for scholars, students, and interested readers of international economics, anthropology, development issues, labor studies, and sociology.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series Nr.23
• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780759105836
• ISBN-10: 0759105839
• Artikelnr.: 22214986

Autorenporträt

Edited by E. Paul Durrenberger and Judith E. Martí - Contributions by Katherine A. Bowie; Barbara J. Dilly; G Feinman; V Heredia; Dolores Koenig; S Kowalewski; Robert C. Marshall; L Nicholas; Sutti Ortiz; John R. Pulskamp; Martha Woodson Rees; Karaleah S.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Preface Part 2 Introduction 3 1 Sewer Socialism and Labor: The
Pragmatics of Running a Good City 3 2 Political-Economic Change, Cultural
Traditions, and Household Organization in Rural Mali 4 PART I: HOUSEHOLDS 6
3 Labor Discipline, Debt and Effort in a Philippine Fishing Community 7 5
Baragining Wages and Controlling Performance: Harvest Labor in Coffee and
Citrus 7 4 ¿Ayuda or Work? Labor History of Female Heads of Household from
Oaxaca, Mexico 8 6 We're to Stand Side by Side: Household Production and
Women's Work in Rural Mining Communities 8 PART II: FIRMS AND CORPORATE
ENTITIES 9 7 The Emergence of Worker Cooperatives in Japan among
Middle-Aged Middle-Class Housewives in the Late Twentieth Century 12 8
Proletarianization of Professional Work and Changed Workplace Relationships
12 9 Of Corvee and Slavery: Historical Intricacies of the Division of Labor
and State Power in Northern Thailand 13 PART III: STATES: PREMODERN TO
TRANSNATIONAL 13 10 Hilltowns and Valley Fields: Great Transformations,
Labor, and Long-Term History in Ancient Oaxaca 14 11 A Political Economy
from Increasing Marginal Returns to Labor: An Example from Viking Age
Iceland 16 13 Crossing the Border From Jalisco, Mexico: Network-Mediated
Entry into Micro-Labor Enclaves 17 12 Immigrant Labor in the New United
States Economy: Anthropological Notes 19 14 Volunteer Labor: "Adding Value"
to Local Culture