Labor in Cross-Cultural Perspective: : Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series Katherine A. Bowie AltaMira Press

Labor in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Textbook

Labor in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Textbook

Description

This excellent new volume in the series from the Society for Economic Anthropology focuses on the role of labor in contrasting world economies. The contributors offer a diverse collection of case studies, illustrating labor processes in a wide range of contexts in both western and nonwestern societies. The volume presents a detailed portrait of how the mobilization of labor changes dramatically with variations in social, political and economic conditions, as well as location and time period, reaffirming the unique contribution of anthropology to economic research. Individual sections include discussions on household labor, firms and corporations, 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.

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

Product details

Published	Dec 22 2005
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	338
ISBN	9780759105836
Imprint	AltaMira Press
Dimensions	232 x 156 mm
Series	Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Anthology Editor

E. Paul Durrenberger

Anthology Editor

Judith E. Martí

Contributor

Katherine A. Bowie

Contributor

Barbara J. Dilly

Contributor

G Feinman

Contributor

V Heredia

Contributor

Dolores Koenig

Contributor

S Kowalewski

Contributor

Robert C. Marshall

Contributor

L Nicholas

Contributor

Sutti Ortiz

Contributor

John R. Pulskamp

Contributor

Martha Woodson Rees

Contributor

Karaleah S. Reichart

Contributor

Susan D. Russell

Contributor

John M. Steinberg

Contributor

Tamar Diana Wilson

Contributor

Frank Zeidler

Contributor

Christian Zlolniski

One of the key strengths of the book is the strong empirical thread that runs through it. Another is that the contributors present strong and well-reasoned arguments for their respective positions. Finally, the book is strengthened by the fact that the contributors, while raising important questions about mainstream economies, so not sing from the same page in the hymn book. This makes for the presentation of an engaging set of views on labor in cross-cultural perspective that is sure to promote considerable discussion in the field and will push the state of knowledge in economic anthropology a good distance from where it has been in the past decade.

Journal of Anthropological Research