Women and Capitalism in the Croatian Hinterland : The Practice of Labor and Consumption 9780739187371, 9780739187364

The Labor of Development: Workers and the Transformation of Capitalism in Kerala, India 9781501720734

The state of Kerala in southern India is notable for the ways in which lower-class mobilization and state intervention h

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The Labor of Luck: Casino Capitalism in the United States and South Africa 9780520944657

In this gripping ethnography, Jeffrey J. Sallaz goes behind the scenes of the global casino industry to investigate the

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Women in the Sky: Gender and Labor in the Making of Modern Korea 1501758276, 9781501758270

Women in the Sky examines Korean women factory workers' century-long activism, from the 1920s to the present, with

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Women in the Sky: Gender and Labor in the Making of Modern Korea 9781501758287

By using gender and class as analytical categories, Nam presents a comprehensive study and rethinking of twentieth-centu

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Women in the Labor Market 9780231899796

Examines the role of women in the labor market in five categories; household decision making, labor supply projections,

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The Making and Unmaking of the Haya Lived World: Consumption, Commoditization, and Everyday Practice 9780822398493

At the center of this subtle ethnographic account of the Haya communities of Northwest Tanzania is the idea of a lived w

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Contagious Capitalism: Globalization and the Politics of Labor in China [Course Book ed.] 9781400837298

One of the core assumptions of recent American foreign policy is that China's post-1978 policy of "reform and

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Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism: Precarity, Class, and the Neoliberal Subject 9781785336799

Bringing together ethnographic case studies of industrial labor from different parts of the world, Industrial Labor on t

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Time for Things: Labor, Leisure, and the Rise of Mass Consumption 9780674250543

Economists say there is a limit to what we gain by buying consumer goods. Americans say they want to work less. Yet we c

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Time for things : labor, leisure, and the rise of mass consumption 9780674250529, 9780674250536, 2020016849, 9780674979512

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