Labor in Cross-Cultural Perspective

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

• ISBN13: 9780759105829
• ISBN10: 0759105820
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-22
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

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.

Author Biography

E. Paul Durrenberger is professor of anthropology at Pennsylvania State University Judith Marti is professor of anthropology at California State University, Northridge

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
E. Paul Durrenberger
Introduction	1	(26)
E. Paul Durrenberger
Judith Marti
Sewer Socialism and Labor: The Pragmatics of Running a Good City	27	(16)
Frank P. Zeidler
PART I: Households	43	(68)
Political-Economic Change, Cultural Traditions, and Household Organization in Rural Mali	45	(20)
Dolores Koenig
Labor Discipline, Debt, and Effort in a Philippine Fishing Community	65	(22)
Susan D. Russell
¿Ayuda or Work? Labor History of Female Heads of Household from Oaxaca, Mexico	87	(24)
Martha Woodson Rees
PART II: Firms and Corporate Entities	111	(82)
Bargaining Wages and Controlling Performance: Harvest Labor in Coffee and Citrus	113	(24)
Sutti Ortiz
We're to Stand Side by Side: Household Production and Women's Work in Rural Mining Communities	137	(18)
Karaleah S. Reichart
The Emergence of Worker Cooperatives in Japan among Middle-Aged Middle-Class Housewives in the Late Twentieth Century	155	(20)
Robert C. Marshall
Proletarianization of Professional Work and Changed Workplace Relationships	175	(18)
John R. Pulskamp
PART III: States: Premodern to Transnational	193	(126)
Hilltowns and Valley Fields: Great Transformations, Labor, and Long-Term History in Ancient Oaxaca	197	(20)
Stephen A. Kowalewski
Gary M. Feinman
Linda M. Nicholas
Verenice Y. Heredia
A Political Economy from Increasing Marginal Returns to Labor: An Example from Viking Age Iceland	217	(28)
John M. Steinberg
Of Corvee and Slavery: Historical Intricacies of the Division of Labor and State Power in Northern Thailand	245	(20)
Katherine A. Bowie
Immigrant Labor in the New U.S. Economy: Anthropological Notes	265	(18)
Christian Zlolniski
Crossing the Border from Jalisco, Mexico: Network-Mediated Entry into Micro-Labor Enclaves	283	(24)
Tamar Diana Wilson
Volunteer Labor: ``Adding Value'' to Local Culture	307	(12)
Barbara J. Dilly
Index	319	(6)
About the Contributors	325