Moral Economy at Work: Ethnographic Investigations in Eurasia

Author:   Lale Yalçın-Heckmann
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781805391166


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   15 September 2023
Format:   Paperback
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Our Price $41.27 Quantity:  
Add to Cart

Share |

Moral Economy at Work: Ethnographic Investigations in Eurasia


Add your own review!

Overview

The idea of a moral economy has been explored and assessed in numerous disciplines. The anthropological studies in this volume provide a new perspective to this idea by showing how the relations of workers, employees and employers, and of firms, families and households are interwoven with local notions of moralities. From concepts of individual autonomy, kinship obligations, to ways of expressing mutuality or creativity, moral values exert an unrealized influence, and these often produce more consent than resistance or outrage.

Full Product Details

Author:   Lale Yalçın-Heckmann
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781805391166


ISBN 10:   180539116
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   15 September 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

List of Figures Introduction: Moral Economy at Work Lale Yalçın-Heckmann Chapter 1. Freedom and Control: Analysing the Values of Niche Business Owners in Aarhus, Denmark Anne-Erita G. Berta Chapter 2. The ‘Good’ Employer: Mutual Expectations amidst Changing Employment Situations in Pathein, Myanmar Laura Hornig Chapter 3. Moral Economy and Mutuality at Work: Labour Practices in Tobacco Shops Luca Szücs Chapter 4. Tenacious Ties: The Embedded Trajectory of Small-Scale Enterprises in Provincial India Sudeshna Chaki Chapter 5. The Morality of Relatedness in Medium-Sized Businesses in Central Anatolia Ceren Deniz Chapter 6. Post-Soviet Garment Manufacturing in the Era of Global Competition: Between Precarity, Creative Work and Developmental Hopes Daria Tereshina Chapter 7. FIAT Automobiles Serbia: The Split Moral Economy of Public-Private Partnerships Ivan Rajković Chapter 8. Changing Mutuality: Building a House with Unpaid Labour in Bulgaria Detelina Tocheva Afterword: Moral Economy in Context James G. Carrier Index

Reviews

“This edited volume provides valuable insights into the lived experiences of ordinary citizens who do not neatly fit into the rational, autonomous, self-regarding maximizers category imposed by neoclassical economists. Taken together, this set of ethnographic studies shows that a sense of justice experienced by different social groups at work can give insight into moral aspects of economies throughout the world. Scholars in the fields of economic anthropology, development studies, and labor relations will enjoy reading diverse examples of these phenomena from a wide range of locations across Eurasia.” • Exertions “Each chapter carefully contextualizes the social norms, values, and obligations of their respective local setting to demonstrate how the moral economy is at play in various work situations… This well-conceived volume would allow for an engaging discussion in undergraduate (both anthropology majors and non-majors) and graduate classes focusing on work, globalization, and capitalism.” • Anthropos “Contains a set of impressive ethnographic studies from a wide range of locations, introduced and tied together by an extremely clear, thorough and strong Introduction by Lale Yalçın-Heckmann.” • Frances Pine, Goldsmiths, University of London


Author Information

Lale Yalçın-Heckmann has been a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale and teaches anthropology at the University of Pardubice, Czech Republic. She is the co-editor of Caucasus Paradigms: Anthropologies, Histories and the Making of a World Area (LIT Publishers, 2007) and author of The Return of Private Property: Rural Life after Agrarian Reform in the Republic of Azerbaijan (LIT Publishers, 2010).

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions
Latest Reading Guide

lgn

al

Shopping Cart
Your cart is empty
Shopping cart
Mailing List