Title Spirits of resistance and capitalist discipline : factory women in Malaysia / Aihwa Ong

Published Albany : State University of New York Press, [1987] ©1987

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Description xvi, 268 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Series The SUNY series in the anthropology of work SUNY series in the anthropology of work. Contents Part 1: Capitalist development and cultural experience -- Spirits and discipline in capitalist transformation -- Malay peasants from subsistence to commodity production -- Part 2: The Kampung society of coastal Selangor -- Tropical confluences: rural society, capital, and the state -- Sungai Jawa: differentiation and dispersal -- Domestic relations: the reconfiguration of family life -- Marriage strategies: negotiating the future -- Part 3: Neophyte factory women in late capitalism -- The modern corporation: manufacturing gender hierarchy -- Neophyte factory women and the negative image -- Spirits of resistance Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography: pages 243-255 Subject Economic anthropology -- Malaysia -- Selangor. Peasants -- Malaysia -- Selangor. Social change -- Case studies. Women electronic industry workers -- Malaysia -- Selangor. Working class -- Malaysia -- Selangor. SUBJECT Selangor (Malaysia) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2014067883 -- Rural conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00007670 LC no. 86022980 ISBN 0887063802 0887063810

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