skip to content
Close Window

Please sign in to WorldCat 

Don't have an account? You can easily create a free account.

Labor in cross-cultural perspective
Preview this item

Labor in cross-cultural perspective

Author: E Paul Durrenberger; Judith Marti; Society for Economic Anthropology (U.S.). Meeting
Publisher: Lanham, MD : AltaMira Press ; [Durham, N.H.] : Published in cooperation with the Society for Economic Anthropology, ©2006.
Series: Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA) monographs, no. 23
Edition/Format: Book : Conference publication : English
Rating:

Retrieving ratings and reviews data...  

Get this item

Borrow or obtain a copy

Finding libraries that hold this item...

Details

Material Type: Conference publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: E Paul Durrenberger; Judith Marti; Society for Economic Anthropology (U.S.). Meeting
ISBN: 0759105820 9780759105829 0759105839 9780759105836
OCLC Number: 59223923
Notes: Papers originally presented at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the Society for Economic Anthropoloyg held in Milwaukee.
Description: viii, 330 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Sewer socialism and labor : the pragmatics of running a good city / Frank P. Zeidler -- Political-economic change, cultural traditions, and household organization in rural Mali / Dolores Konig -- Labor discipline, debt, and effort in a Philippine fishing community / Susan D. Russell -- ¿Ayuda or work? : labor history of female heads of household from Oaxaca, Mexico / Martha Woodson Rees -- Bargaining wages and controlling performance : harvest labor in coffee and citrus / Sutti Ortiz -- We're to stand side by side : household production and women's work in rural mining communities / Karaleah S. Reichart -- The emergence of worker cooperatives in Japan among middle-aged middle-class housewives in the late twentieth century / Robert C. Marshall -- Proletarianization of professional work and changed workplace relationships / John R. Pulskamp -- Hilltowns and valley fields : great transformations, labor, and long-term history in ancient Oaxaca / Stephen A. Kowalewski ... [et al.] -- A political economy from increasing marginal returns to labor : an example from Viking Age Iceland / John M. Steinberg -- Of Corvée and slavery : historical intricacies of the division of labor and state power in Northern Thailand / Katherine A. Bowie -- Immigrant labor in the new U.S. economy : anthropological notes / Christian Zlolniski -- Crossing the border from Jalisco (Mexico) : network-mediated entry into micro-labor enclaves / Tamar Diana Wilson -- Volunteer labor : "adding value" to local culture / Barbara J. Dilly.
Series Title: Society for Economic Anthropology (SEA) monographs, no. 23
Responsibility: E. Paul Durrenberger And Judith Marti, editors.
More information:

Reviews

Retrieving WorldCat reviews...
Retrieving EMRO reviews...
Retrieving weRead reviews...
Retrieving Amazon reviews...

Tags

Be the first.