The Two Milpas of Chan Kom

Alicia Re Cruz

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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... Lees meer

The Myth of Mondragon

Sharryn Kasmir

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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... Lees meer

American Enterprise in Japan

Tomoko Hamada

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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 join... Lees meer

In the Wake of the Giant

Max H Kirsch

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• Contrasting "native" and "outsider" points of view, this book explores the contemporary realities of work, development and redevelopment in Pittsfield... Lees meer

Apprenticeship

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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 b... Lees meer

The Two Milpas of Chan Kom

Alicia Re Cruz

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny the Anthropology of Work
• Chan Kom is a Maya community in the Yucatán peninsula that is currently undergoing a process of transformation due to increasing migration to Cancún, ... Lees meer

Workers' Expressions

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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 p... Lees meer

Invisible Factories

Lauren A Benton

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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 dev... Lees meer

Embroidering Lives

Clare M Wilkinson-Weber

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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 insigh... Lees meer

Crafts in the World Market

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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... Lees meer

Meanings of Work

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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 o... Lees meer

In the Name of Harmony and Prosperity

Anru Lee

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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 ... Lees meer

Brickyards to Graveyards

Villia Jefremovas

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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 ho... Lees meer

The Redivision of Labor

Laurel H Bossen

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• How does economic development affect women in Latin America? This work examines the different ways that economic and social relations between the sexe... Lees meer

Subsidizing Capitalism

Tamar Diana Wilson

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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-empl... Lees meer

Work in Market and Industrial Societies

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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-... Lees meer

Jones's Minimal

David Griffith

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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 ... Lees meer

Women, Men, and the International Division of Labor

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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 ... Lees meer

For We are Sold, I and My People

María P Fernández-Kelly

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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. ... Lees meer

Union Voices

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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 fac... Lees meer

More Than Class

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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 i... Lees meer

Open Country, Iowa

Deborah Fink

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• Open Country, Iowa links anthropology and history in a woman's perspective on the changing social patterns of rural Iowa communities. Using life stori... Lees meer

The Concept of Work

Herbert Applebaum

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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 ... Lees meer

Workers and Narratives of Survival in Europe

• Paperback | Engels | Suny the Anthropology of Work
• Chronicles the growing impact of job uncertainty on workers in Europe. Workers and Narratives of Survival in Europe explores the growing problem of jo... Lees meer