Industrial Work and Life: An Anthropological Reader

Industrial time and work discipline. Time, work-discipline, and industrial capitalism / E.P. Thompson ; Peasant time and factory time in Japan / Thomas C. Smith ; Satanic fields, pleasant mills : work in an Indian steel plant / Jonathan Parry ; The production of possession : spirits and the multinational corporation in Malaysia / Aihwa Ong -- Industrial work : skill, control and consent. Scientific management / Harry Braverman ; Controlling the line / Huw Beynon ; Thirty years of making out / Michael Burawoy ; The nuclear everyday / Françoise Zonabend -- 'Work', 'life' and gender. Emerging alienation in production : a Maussian history / James G. Carrier ; Gendered meanings in contention : anarchomex / Leslie Salzinger ; Localistic despotism / Ching Kwan Lee ; Femininity and flexible labor : fashioning class through gender on the global assembly line / Carla Freeman ; The enterprise as community / Ronald Dore ; Yoseba and Ninpudashi : changing patterns of employment on the fringes of the Japanese economy / Tom Gill -- The road(s) to industrial 'modernity'. anthropological problems arising from the African industrial revolution / Max Gluckman ; Global disconnect : abjection and the aftermath of Modernism / James Ferguson ; Despair : the decline of the Kanpur textile mills / Chitra Joshi ; The poetics of productivity / Lisa Rofel ; Asking for and giving Baki : neo-bondage, or the interplay of bondage and resistance in the Tamilnadu power-loom industry / Geert De Neve -- The industrial working class. Bourgeois and Proletarians / Karl Marx ; Perspectives on the politics of class / Rajnarayan Chandavarkar ; Class structure in the classic slum / Robert Roberts ; Community and class consciousness / Jane Nash ; Learning to protest in Japan : class consciousness, solidarity, and political action / Christena Turner.