| Description |
1 online resource (266 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figure -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Cultural Value of Work -- Part I Labor in Ethnohistorical Settings -- 1 It Isn't Santa Claus Coming to Town: European Expansion into Arctic Environments -- 2 Dispossession and Conscription: Euro-American Use of Native American Labor -- 3 Labor for Forests: European Expansion through Naval Stores -- Part II Values of Forms of Labor -- 4 The Value of Reproductive Labor -- Value and Reproductive Labor -- Forms of Labor |
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Reproductive Labor -- Relationships between Reproductive and Foreign Contract Labor -- Questions of Value in Reproductive and Productive Labor -- 5 Domestic Economics I -- Domestic Economics in Mantiox de Dios -- Mantiox de Dios and the Interpenetration of Capitalist and Domestic Economics -- 6 Domestic Economics II -- Las Brisas, Sinaloa -- Enforcing Economics: Individual Fishery Quota Programs in the Gulf of Mexico Grouper-Tilefish Fishery -- Gulf of Mexico's Grouper-Tilefish Fishery -- Reducing Overcapacity -- Improving Economic Efficiency |
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Natural Resources, Labor Relations, and Domestic Capitalist Economics -- 7 Cultural Labor in the Migration Economy -- Migration Economics in Mainstream Economies -- Migration Industries and Economies: Theoretical Asides -- Entrepreneurs in a Migrant Economy -- Entrepreneurship and Disguised Wage Labor: Contracting and Subcontracting -- Managed Migration in Migration Economies -- Immigrant Activism -- Conclusion: New Immigrants, New Destinations, and New Economics -- Part III Work and Labor in Economic and Anthropological Theory -- 8 Labor, Value, Culture -- Diminishing Values of Wage Labor |
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Alternative Value Creation -- Knowledge, Nature, and Cultural Values of Labor -- 9 Anthropology of Economics -- Future in a Final Case: Labor Migration, Economic Formation, and Tobacco -- Appendix A A Note on the Qualifications of the Author -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
Focusing on migrant workers, this book explores the different forms work takes, in the context of economic precarity and fragmentation |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Labor -- Social aspects
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Labor -- Anthropological aspects.
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Foreign workers -- Social conditions
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Precarious employment -- Social aspects
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Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects.
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Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects
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Foreign workers -- Social conditions
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Labor -- Anthropological aspects
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Labor -- Social aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1009118579 |
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9781009118576 |
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