Industrial Work and Life

Geert De Neeve is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex. Massimilano Mollona is Lecturer in Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Jonathan Parry is Professor of Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics.

• General introductionPART 1: TIME AND WORK DISCIPLINE Sectional Introduction1.Time, work-discipline and industrial capitalism, Edward Palmer Thompson2.The production of possession: Spirits and the multinational corporation in Malaysia, Aihwa Ong3.Satanic fields, pleasant mills: work in an Indian steel plant, Jonathan Parry, 4.Peasant time and factory time in Japan, Thomas C. SmithPART 2: WORK ORGANISATIONSectional Introduction5.Scientific Management, Harry Braverman6.Thirty years of making out, Michael Burawoy7.Controlling the line, Huw Beynon8.The nuclear everyday, Françoise ZonabendPart 3: 'WORK' AND 'LIFE'Sectional Introduction9.Emerging alienation in production: a Maussian history, James Carrier10.Gendered Meanings in Contention, Leslie Salzinger11.Local Despotism, Ching Kwan Lee12.The enterprise as a community, Ronald Dore, 13.Yoseba and Ninpudashi: Changing Patterns of Employment on the fringes of the Japanese Economy, Tom Gill14.Femininity and flexible labor: Fashioning class through gender on the global assembly line, Carla FreemanPART 4: INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AS TELOS Sectional Introduction15.Anthropological problems arising from the African Industrial Revolution, Max Gluckman 16.Global Disconnect: Abjection and the Aftermath of Modernism, James Ferguson 17.Despair, Chitra Joshi 18.The Poetics of Productivity, Lisa Rofel19.Asking for and giving baki, Geert De NevePART 5: THE WORKING CLASS? Sectional Introduction20.Bourgeois and proletarians, Karl Marx 21.Perspectives on the politics of class, Rajnarayan Chandavarkar22.Class structure in the classic slum, Robert Roberts 23.The cultural roots of working class identity in the Bolivian tin mines, June Nash 24.Learning to Protest in Japan, Christena Turner BibliographyIndex

With its judicious combination of classic texts and of exciting newer ethnography, together with clearly argued reviews of the wider literature, this volume serves to redefine the anthropology of industrialization and to set out an agenda for teaching and research. -- John Harriss, Professor of International Studies at Simon Fraser University ... an excellent interdisciplinary Reader and at the same time a milestone in social anthropology's engagement with the economy. -- Chris Hann, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology This comprehensive and accessible volume will prove invaluable not only to scholars interested in the many faces of global capitalism but also to students in a variety of disciplines. An impressive achievement! -- Akhil Gupta, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles An excellent reader that covers a wide range of examples. -- Dr Emma Jayne Abbots, University of Wales, UK