| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 248 pages) : maps |
| 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Alternative Value Creation -- Knowledge, Nature, and Cultural Values of Labor -- 9 Anthropology of Economics |
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Future in a Final Case: Labor Migration, Economic Formation, and Tobacco -- Appendix A A Note on the Qualifications of the Author -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
"Traditional wage labour has experienced a significant decline in industrialised countries over the past few decades. The spread of temporary work, the proliferation of subcontracting arrangements, the use of AI, the shipment of manufacturing jobs overseas, and the employment of foreign contract workers are among the key factors driving this decline. The result is a rise of labour insecurity and fragmentation among increasingly diverse forms of flexible labour arrangements. This book examines this important transformation by considering the impact of foreign contract labour on temporary migrant workers in their places of employment and home communities. It assesses work as a source of value in capitalist, reproductive, domestic, and cultural economics, and argues for a new, work-centric field of economics. Rich in examples, it is a sophisticated anthropological appreciation of the many forms that work can take, and what these forms mean for the creation of value in people's lives"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 21, 2022) |
| Subject |
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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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural & Social.
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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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| LC no. |
2022970033 |
| ISBN |
9781009109000 |
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1009109006 |
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